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Can Current Storage Infrastructure Meet the AI at Scale Demand?
In our last blog we covered the challenges that AI at scale creates for storage infrastructures. To support the coming wave of AI applications, storage infrastructures need to deliver a tremendous amount of storage capacity with the ability to retain…
Overcoming the DRaaS Time Compromise
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) looks great on paper. DRaaS vendors tell organizations that they can eliminate their disaster recovery site and recover on-demand, in the cloud. The potential for cost savings abounds. Organizations have the potential to reduce…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Flash, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, NFS, NVMe, SDDC
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Lightboard Video: Why is NOW the Time for SDS?
As a term, software-defined storage (SDS) has been around for over a decade. The concept of abstracting storage software from the storage hardware is even older, predating Y2K. Despite its time on the market and many apparent advantages, SDS adoption…
Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage
Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud NAS, Cohesity, Compression, Deduplication, Dev/Test, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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Is Your Storage Ready for the Data-Driven Economy? – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Organizations need to re-think their storage architectures for the data-driven economy. How an organization captures, stores, and analyzes data, can dictate how successful it might be in this new economic model where data drives organizations. The data-driven economy is not…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, AS, Cloud, Container, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Hard disk drive, Retention, Scale, SwiftStack, Unstructured data
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Understanding the Challenges That AI at Scale Creates
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in its infancy and the requirements it places on the storage architectures that support these workloads are not widely understood. As a result, an organization starting an AI initiative can initially get away with using an…
The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service
The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
Skip the Disk – Send Backups Straight to Tape
All restores are not created equal, even during a disaster. The reality is that IT should not recover most mission critical systems from a backup of any kind (flash, disk or tape). Instead, IT should recover these critical systems from…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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The Ultimate Tape Advantage – Cold Offsite Storage
One of the biggest advantages to integrating tape media into the backup infrastructure is the door it opens for the organization to leverage cold offsite storage. As we’ve discussed throughout this series most data occupying capacity on a disk backup…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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