The four walls of the data center no longer confine users, applications, and data. Organizations are multi-site, and users want to work from anywhere. Making “work from anywhere” a reality still requires data and data still has gravity. Data has…
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True WAN Optimization is not Deduplication – Bridgeworks Briefing Note
Tagged with: Bridgeworks, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Latency, Redundancy, WAN
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Simpler is Better – Solving Rack Scale Storage Problems – DriveScale Briefing Note
The storage infrastructure for multi-rack scale applications like Hadoop Spark, Cassandra, and CouchBase, are typically built using directly attached flash-based storage instead of a shared flash array. The motivation for using direct-attached storage (DAS) is simple. Media inside a server…
Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DriveScale, Flash, NVMe, NVMe-oF, RAID, SAS, Shared Storage, Snapshot
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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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Hardware Defined All-Flash Arrays for a Software Defined World – Storbyte Briefing Note
While software-defined storage (SDS) captures the attention of the market, enterprise IT professionals know that the hardware still matters. The problem is that while a multitude of SDS solutions have come to market the hardware selection pool is essentially limited…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, ASIC, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, SDS, SSD, Storbyte
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Understanding All-Flash Costs – X-IO Briefing Note
All-flash arrays are quickly becoming the production storage system of choice. Organizations like that all-flash arrays eliminate the need to constantly fine tune the environment to wring out that last little bit of performance. The problem is that flash arrays…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, dr, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, X-IO
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Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem – Elastifile Briefing Note
Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Migration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage
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Meeting the Five Unstructured Data Backup Requirements
In the last blog, we laid out the five requirements for unstructured data protection; fine-grained backups, frequent and rapid backups; cloud support, data classification, and an archiving future. Aparavi is one of the first data protection companies specifically focused on…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Ransomware, Retention, Unstructured data
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