In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
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Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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The Advantages of a Fabric Based File System
Storage solutions that offer customers familiar, flexible interfaces (e.g.files and file attributes), while also offering advanced features like automated data movement and cloud bursting, offer a unique solution to many problems. The more seamless we can make things for the…
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What is a Data Fabric?
When most IT professionals hear the phrase “storage is growing”, they typically roll their eyes and assume the vendor is talking about the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in data capacity requirements over the last decade or so. But storage is…
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On-Premises, in the Cloud, or Both?
If you ever ask someone whether your data should be on-premises, in the cloud, or both, the answer is often different depending on the source. Cloud vendors think you should store all of your data in the cloud. Traditional storage…
The Storage Challenges to IT Agility
IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come…
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