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Dealing with the AI and Analytics Data Explosion – MapR Briefing Note
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, MapR, NDFS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, S3
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Posted in Briefing Note
Webinar: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array
The first generation of all-flash arrays has come and gone. For many organizations, the time is now to consider the “next” all-flash array. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland and X-IO Storage discuss five things to look for in…
Webinar: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture
The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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Posted in Webinar
Requirements for a Flash to Flash to Cloud Architecture
The first three chapters presented the flash to flash to cloud architecture as a design that enables an organization to overcome the majority of its primary storage challenges as well as provide a method to improve its data protection and…
Webinar: Three Steps to Multi-Vendor Storage Excellence
Most data centers have given up on the idea of a single storage system for all the organization’s workloads. Organizations have decided to buy storage systems that solve a specific problem. The multi-vendor storage environment does have some advantages. Individual…
Flash to Flash to Cloud – Solving the Data Protection Problem
The primary objective of a data protection strategy is to protect data frequently and consistently. The ever growing size of data, the diversity of systems that store that data and the high expectations of the creators and consumers of that…
SlideShare: Three Reasons Storage Security is Failing and How to Fix It
An organization’s data is constantly under attack. Whether it’s through ransomware attacks, cyber-threats or employee misguidedness, all expose organizational data and put it at risk. Encryption and access control are the keys to securing data and cyber resiliency, but most…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Software Defined
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Posted in Slideshare
Designing Storage for MongoDB, Spark, MySQL, and Cassandra – Pavilion Data Briefing Note
Modern applications like MongoDB, Spark, MySQL, and Cassandra are disrupting traditional storage architectures. To keep storage costs down and performance high these applications use direct attached PCIe flash storage. Many organizations are rapidly integrating NVMe. The problem is that direct-attached…
Tagged with: Cassandra, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, Latency, MySQL, NoSQL, NVMe, Pavilion Data, PCIe, Shared Storage
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Posted in Briefing Note
Why Data Movement Breaks Data Management and How to Fix It
The primary goal of a data management strategy is to reduce storage costs. Achieving that goal requires that at some point data will have to move from primary storage to a less expensive secondary storage. The movement of data between…
The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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