Either as part of a normal storage refresh cycle or when consolidating storage assets after a merger, almost every data center will eventually need to migrate data from one storage system to another. The problem is that data migrations are…
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Bringing Cloud Storage to the Tier 2 Data Center
Unstructured data is file based data that is most commonly associated with user productivity applications like word processing, spreadsheets and presentation files. But unstructured data also includes rich media from training videos, photos, CAD-CAM drawings etc., plus the data created…
Rethinking the Storage Controller for Unstructured Data
Conventional wisdom suggests that most business data is stored in database applications, however, unstructured data comprises approximately 70-80% of the total data in a typical environment and, according to some industry sources, is growing 5x as fast. File-based data is…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Exablox, NAS, SharePoint, Unstructured data
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Unstructured Data Storage For The Mid-Market
Unstructured data (data that’s outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Large cloud service providers and some larger enterprises have dealt with this challenge by embracing object storage. For smaller data centers and…
Tagged with: Data center, Exablox, Hardware, OneSystem, RAID, Storage, Unstructured data
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The Cost of Over-Provisioning Flash Arrays
All-Flash Arrays have to overcome two key obstacles when trying to gain acceptance as storage systems which can be utilized across a wide number of use cases in the data center. First, they must be durable and secondly, they must…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data center, Flash memory, Skyera, Solid State, Solid-state drive
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Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays are storage systems that are 100% solid state and give a complete set of robust features like snapshots and replication, similar to traditional hard-drive based storage systems. While their performance enhancing potential is very appealing, All-Flash arrays have…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Computer data storage, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, Pure, Solid-state drive, VMware
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Solving Hadoop Storage Challenges by Converging Storage and Compute
Cleversafe’s object-based, scale-out storage architecture leverages a unique information dispersal algorithm to distribute data objects across multiple storage nodes (called Slicestor ** nodes). These nodes can be located in a single data center or spread around the world. Using a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Big data, Cleversafe, Data center, Hadoop, Hardware, HDFS, MapReduce, Object Storage
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Achieving Maximum SSD Efficiency
There are two well-known facts about solid state disk (SSD). First, SSD is fast and second, SSD is expensive—compared with traditional disk drives. There are also two well-known facts about the data center. First, almost every data center needs more…
Tagged with: Data center, Deduplication, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD
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What is a Storage Controller?
Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…
Tagged with: Central processing unit, Controller, Data center, dual controller, Fibre Channel, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD, storage array, Storage Controller, Storage Hypervisor, storage system, storage systems
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The Big Data Archive
“Big Data” is often thought of as a specialized use case involving machine generated data, typically associated with web search logs, satellite imagery or other sensor data, on which analytics are performed to enable some sort of decision support application.…
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