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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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The Time is Now for File Virtualization

Posted on December 9, 2019 by George Crump

One part of File Virtualization is a global file system that abstracts the physical location of data from the logical directory structure. Even though data may move between physical file servers or network-attached storage (NAS) systems, users continue to access…

Tagged with: Archive, DataCore, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, pNFS, ROI, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Overcoming HCI Transition Problems

Posted on October 8, 2019 by George Crump

As they consider a potential transition to a hyperconverged architecture (HCI), organizations need to decide how to migrate data to the HCI platform. They also need to decide what to do with their legacy storage infrastructure that still will be…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Lightboard Video: Fulfilling The SDS Promise

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Central to the promise of software-defined storage (SDS) is the core tenet that organizations have a single interface to manage all of their diverse storage resources. Unlike most SDS solutions, which fail to fulfill this core principle, DataCore Software is…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Lightboard Video: How to Move to HCI while retaining the best of SANs

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs-simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch.…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Unlocking Software Defined Storage

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a concept that sometimes benefits vendors more so than it benefits customers. Most SDS vendors are shifting from a model that was software only to one that includes hardware. SDS is still advantageous to these vendors…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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A No Compromise Approach to Software Defined Storage – DataCore Software Briefing Note

Posted on May 13, 2019 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to displace legacy hardware storage solutions that locked customers into a particular vendor. Years after its introduction SDS continues to struggle to gain critical mass within data centers. Today most data centers, especially at…

Tagged with: DataCore, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, NVMe, SDS, Snapshot
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Is SDS Ready for You? – DataCore Briefing Note

Posted on June 13, 2017 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) has not taken the data center by storm like many experts predicted. Sales of turnkey hardware and software solutions still dominate the storage purchases for most data centers. The problem is that most SDS solutions have…

Tagged with: CPU, DataCore, Flash, Latency, Mirroring, SDS, Virtualization
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Why Low Latency Matters

Posted on February 2, 2016 by George Crump

Enterprise Applications and Dynamic Business Workloads Demand Faster and Faster Response Times Applications are driving the enterprise, whether it is a relatively simple application used by millions of customers or a complex, scalable database that drives an organization’s back end.…

Tagged with: CPU, DataCore, Flash, HDD, IOPS, Latency, SSD
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Software Defined Storage meets Parallel I/O

Posted on December 1, 2015 by George Crump

In terms of storage performance, the actual drive is no longer the bottleneck. Thanks to flash storage, attention has turned to the hardware and software that surrounds them, especially the capabilities of the CPU that drives the storage software. The…