About the same time all-flash arrays appeared on the market, pundits started to predict the coming all-flash data center. In the all-flash data center, IT would finally find storage nirvana. There will be no performance issues, the days of tuning…
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NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently
Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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How To Integrate On-Premises Storage To Cloud Storage?
In response to a polling question in our recent webinar, “Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain,” 27 percent of the respondents indicated their biggest challenge was integrating on-premises storage with the cloud. While general data migration…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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The Impact of Persistent Memory in the Data Center
Flash is the form of persistent memory that most IT professional are aware of, and it has fundamentally changed the data center. But we’ve only scratched the surface of what persistent memory is capable of, and flash is not the…
Webinar: Where is the All-Flash Data Center?
Find it With Multi-tiered Flash! The all-flash data center was to solve all our problems. We’ve had all-flash arrays for ½ a decade. Where are the all-flash data centers? The problem is that performance and cost have been opposing forces…
How Do You Manage Petabytes of Data?
Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HGST, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Network Integrated Data Management – Infinite io Briefing Note
Where and how a data management solution engages with data affects how much value the solution can deliver. The problem is that most data management solutions are passive; they wait until data reaches a certain state prior to taking action.…
Is SDS Ready for You? – DataCore Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has not taken the data center by storm like many experts predicted. Sales of turnkey hardware and software solutions still dominate the storage purchases for most data centers. The problem is that most SDS solutions have…
Storage Problems Limit Hyperconverged Scale
Hyperconvergence has a real problem. It can’t scale. While hyperconverged architectures may be a good match for medium sized business, as the environment scales it’s “all for one, one for all” simplicity becomes problematic. As is usually the case, storage…
Tagged with: Datrium, Erasure code, Flash, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Replication, Scalability, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Optimizing Flash Storage for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge? For many organizations, Microsoft SQL is the heartbeat of the business and IT professionals are under pressure to increase performance, reduce costs and improve protection. Storage vendors will point you toward flash.…
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