HPC data centers are the harbinger of what the enterprise will look like in the coming years. As such enterprise data centers should pay close attention to a recent survey of HPC data centers, which was sponsored by DataDirect Networks.…
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Webinar: How to Design Primary Storage for GDPR
As member countries turn the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law, vendor’s are focusing on secondary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery. But what about primary storage? Is it possible to architect a primary storage system…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Putting the Wheels Back on Your Data Center Modernization Project
Most Global 2000 IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers feel like the wheels have come off their data center modernization project. The goal was to create an environment that can respond to the needs of thousands of applications simultaneously and automatically.…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, APM, Data modernization, FC, Flash, IP, IPM, Silo, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: How to Create A Two Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage
The only problem with the all-flash data center is most of the data (as much as 85%) organizations store is not accessed in more than a year. Assuming there is a more cost effective way to store that data it…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Posted in Slideshare
Time for a Storage SOFTWARE Refresh – StorONE Briefing Note
When the storage software becomes more efficient, the hardware it runs on suddenly loses the significance it once did. In other words, storage can then truly become software-defined. The problem is so-called software-defined vendors have to pre-configure their software on…
Storage for Deep Learning
Deep Learning is a machine learning method that uses algorithms to determine a predictable behavior by analyzing seemingly disparate types of data. Use cases include fraud prevention, image classification, speech recognition, and countless others. To deliver a frictionless interaction with…
What is Cloud Adjacent Storage? – INFINIDAT Briefing Note
Cloud adjacent storage is storage positioned within close proximity to a data center owned by a cloud provider. It enables compute the cloud provider hosts to have high performance, low latent access to data across traditional storage protocols. The challenge…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Cloud Adjacent, DRaaS, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, ISCSI, NFS, RAM, Replication, Software Defined
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StorageShort: Best Practices for 2018 – Eliminate Bad Practices
There are two storage habits that IT professionals should try to eliminate in 2018. The first is the practice of buying more primary storage when the current primary storage system reaches its capacity. The second is counting on the backup…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Posted in StorageShort
The Cloud Storage Consistency Problem
Cloud storage like Amazon S3 is scalable and economical, and it is also highly available. But one thing it is not is consistent. Lack of consistency is the primary reason many organizations struggle with cloud migration. Many production applications need…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
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Meet The CEO of Violin Systems
Ebrahim Abbasi is a turnaround specialist. That is exactly what fit the need of Violin Systems; a turnaround. He was hired prior to Violin’s sale of assets to Quantum Strategic Partners (QSP) and guided it through that period. Now, Violin…
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