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Amplidata redefines “Scale-out” Storage and Improves Erasure Coding

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the meetings at the Next-Gen Storage Summit (NGSS) was by the Object Storage Alliance, a group of many of the companies in this technology space offering storage systems and related products. There was a lively discussion about what…

Tagged with: Amplidata, Architecture, Efficiency, Next Generation Storage Summit, Object Storage, Object Storage Alliance, Scale-Out
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The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge

Posted on September 11, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers are ready for increased data efficiency that they can get from primary storage deduplication and compression, especially for flash based storage systems. The cost of flash justifies these data reduction technologies and flash’s high performance actually enables their…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Integration, Permabit, storage array, Tier-1
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The role of All-Flash for NoSQL Databases

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Traditional databases, like Oracle and MS-SQL, have been around for decades. But thanks to the emerging mega trends of big data, big users and cloud computing, a new class of database is starting to work its way into the enterprise:…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Data Protection, Efficiency, NoSQL, performance, Pure
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All-Flash Architectures Matter

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Flash can improve the performance of almost anything that it’s placed into, be it a laptop, a desktop, a server or a storage system. But to derive maximum benefit from a flash investment requires first that the combined workloads be…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HP, performance
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Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Eric Slack

At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…

Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
Posted in Briefing Note

Storage Q&A: Is The Next Generation Data Center the “End-Game” for IT?

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The next generation data center is here. Highly virtualized servers, extreme VM density, thriving on flexibility, low cost and efficiency. So that’s the thumbnail look at this new data center concept. Here to talk about it in a little more…

Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A

StrongBox brings integrated Data Archiving to NetApp, Windows & Linux Storage

Posted on August 12, 2014 by George Crump

Overwhelmed by unstructured data, like images, video and files not in a database, enterprises are struggling to keep up with storage capacity needs, especially since budgets are flat. As we discussed in a recent article, “The 3 Problems With Adding…

Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Efficiency, LTFS, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Unstructured data
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New Non-Volatile Memory Technology lowers cost of production

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Eric Slack

Contour Semiconductor is developing a new non-volatile memory that leverages Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology and some other innovations to simplify the design process and provide better performance and endurance. Diode Transistor Memory Contour’s Diode Transistor Memory (DTM) technology uses…

Tagged with: Contour Semiconductor, Efficiency, Endurance, Flash memory, Memory, performance, Solid State
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Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?

Posted on July 29, 2014 by George Crump

Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an example,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, DRAM, Efficiency, Flash, Hard Disk Array, MLC, RAID, SLC, TLC, Virtualization
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Flash Arrays need high performance compression

Posted on July 8, 2014 by George Crump

Startups like Nimble, Pure Storage, SolidFire and Tegile are starting to take business away from the traditional tier 1 storage vendors. Their key differentiator, and often the winning point, has been their ability to efficiently use flash storage. Making flash…

Tagged with: Compression, Dedupe, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash Array, performance, Permabit
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