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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Veritas Flex 5150 Briefing Note – Solving the Edge Data Center Protection Challenge

Posted on November 7, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are no longer all centrally located at a single headquarters. They are not even a collection of three or four locations. Instead, the modern organization can have dozens of sites. In specific industries like retail, these organizations can have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Edge Data, Hybrid, IoT, Ransomware, Redundancy, SaaS, Veritas
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Is Your Storage Ready for the Data-Driven Economy? – SwiftStack Briefing Note

Posted on October 30, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to re-think their storage architectures for the data-driven economy. How an organization captures, stores, and analyzes data, can dictate how successful it might be in this new economic model where data drives organizations. The data-driven economy is not…

Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, AS, Cloud, Container, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Hard disk drive, Retention, Scale, SwiftStack, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the NVMe-oF Blame Game

Posted on September 30, 2019 by George Crump

Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) enables shared storage systems to achieve very low latency, to the point that they can now rival direct-attach storage solutions. Organizations no longer have to suffer through the inefficiencies of direct-attached storage, standard in…

Tagged with: CISCO, Container, DAS, FC, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, Shared Storage, Virtualization
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Automating Hybrid Cloud

Posted on September 23, 2019 by George Crump

Creating a hybrid cloud is much harder than organizations expect. Cloud infrastructures run different hypervisors than on-premises, which means it’s necessary to transform the workloads before they can run in the cloud, and then transform them back if the organization…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cohesity, Container, Dev/Test, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication
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Reduxio Focuses on Container-Native Storage

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Making Persistent Storage for Production Kubernetes Attainable Containers have become highly popular among DevOps shops due to their advantages in the areas of agility, simplicity and scalability. These same qualities make them attractive candidates for hosting modern applications such as…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, ML, NVMe, NVMeoF, Reduxio, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, Virtualization, VMware
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Kasten Data Protection and Mobility for Stateful Kubernetes

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Serving Enterprise Data Management for Production Container Environments at Scale Containers have a role in enterprise data centers beyond their initial concentration in DevOps use cases. In order to support production workloads such as relational databases, the container environment must…

Tagged with: Application Centric, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Kasten, Migration
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Is it Time for Application-Focused Storage?

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Service level agreements (SLAs) for application availability for business continuity, and for performance, are more demanding than ever before. Each application often has specific SLA requirements, which results in multi-vendor, heterogeneous IT infrastructures that are challenging to manage. As a…

Tagged with: Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HCI, IaaS, Migration, Retention, ROI, SaaS, SLA, SSD, VDI, Veritas, Virtualization, VM
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Data Protection Versus Hyperconverged Data Protection

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As applications’ data protection requirements become more unique, many enterprises are considering a hyperconverged data protection solution so they can “just drop in” a node to meet expansion needs. While at the surface this sounds like an agile and simple…

Tagged with: Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Retention, VDI, Veritas, Virtualization
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The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…