Object storage has been getting a lot of attention lately. This new way of storing data does not require the old metaphors of volumes and folders. Data is stored in a flat architecture and then each object (file) is assigned…
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Fix Files or Move To Objects – Qumulo Briefing Note
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Fabric, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Replication, Software Defined, Unique ID
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Webinar: What’s Your Path to NVMe?
NVMe and NVMe over fabrics promises to change the flash and networking industry. NVMe enables storage systems to tap into the full potential of flash storage and NVMe allows those systems to deliver in-server latencies. NVMe will fundamentally change storage.…
What’s Next after NVMe?
NVMe is a protocol designed specifically for memory based storage technologies like flash drives. The new industry standard protocol is seeing rapid adoption among vendors meaning the data center may see these solutions become mainstream before the end of the…
Modern Storage Infrastructures Need Software Defined Networks – Big Switch Briefing Note
Data center modernization creates agility so IT can rapidly respond to the needs of the business. Of the aspects of the data center being modernized, the network infrastructure tends to be the last to change and it inhibits the proliferation…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, Fabric, HCI, Hyperconvergence, ISCSI, NFS, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM, VSAN
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What’s Next in All-Flash?
All-Flash Arrays, once thought of as the storage system for certain high performance use cases, are now the mainstream primary storage system. The best proof point of all-flash dominance comes from vendors that sell hard disk, hybrid (flash and hard…
Non-Volatile RAM is Real – Everspin Briefing Note
The future is now. For years it seems like non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) has been a technology that is just over the horizon. While there have been some isolated use cases where the technology makes sense and is being used, we…
Webinar: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond – Everything You Need to Know
NVMe is an industry standard protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage like flash drives. It unleashes flash arrays from the chains of SCSI that hold it back. Register for our live webinar and learn what NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics…
ChalkTalk Video: What is NVMe over Fabric?
When flash drives first came to market the easiest way to integrate them into the enterprise storage infrastructure was to make them connect in the same way that a current hard disk drive would. While providing immediate compatibility and an…
Flash Memory Summit Video – What is NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics with Mangstor
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
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