When the enterprise started using flash, the durability of that media was a major concern for both vendors and IT professionals. It grew a little closer to failure each time data was written to the flash device. Visions of banks…
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Overcoming All-Flash Array Post Implementation Problems
Storage Switzerland suggested a few years ago that IT professionals look for ways to get as much as 10 years out of their flash arrays. The problem was, as we cited at that time, most storage hardware manufacturers counted on…
Tagged with: Capacity, Compression, Data Reduction, Deduplication, Density, Flash, Flash Array, Thin provisioning
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Splunk Storage Basics
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data. While there is a lot of talk about “big data initiatives”, this is the big data that organizations have right now. Use cases include predictive analytics for IT operations, security…
ChalkTalk Video: Modern Shared Storage vs Hyperconverged Architectures
IT professionals are inundated with new ways to deliver storage services to applications and users. Architectures like converged and hyperconverged seem to defy conventional wisdom, creating a new paradigm and server side storage. But the more things change, the more…
Tagged with: Brocade, Flash, Hyperconverged, performance, Realiability, Scale, Shared Storage
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Merging NAS, Object and The Cloud – Avere C2N Product Brief
As more organizations move to the cloud or plan to move to the cloud, in order to address challenges like the ever-rising tide of unstructured data, many are encountering various unexpected complications. Some of these complications are things like increasing…
High Performance Private Cloud Storage via Software – StorPool Briefing Note
Multiple classes of storage make up public clouds (Amazon and Google both have at least three tiers). One of those is made from memory like flash or even DRAM to provide high performance storage to compute intensive applications. Private clouds…
Tagged with: Cloud, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, performance, SDS, StorPool
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Raising the Bar for Data Aware Scale-out NAS – Qumulo Briefing Note
Over a year ago, Qumulo released a new data-aware scale-out NAS solution designed to address what it considers a key weakness in scale-out storage – Increased data management complexity when adding nodes to the cluster. This means most scale-out NAS…
Should M&E use Object Storage or Amazon S3/Glacier?
IT professionals in the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry have to deal with explosive data growth and record setting retention strategies. But even if you’re not in M&E, your industry could face similar challenges in the next few years. To…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Caringo, Cloud, Flash, M&E, Object Storage, performance
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The Performance Realities Facing Deep Flash
One of the more interesting developments in the flash market is the introduction of extremely high density flash systems that can store multiple petabytes of capacity in a few rack units. Once you factor in the power and floor space…
Webinar: How To Design High Performance, Cost Effective Splunk Storage
Organizations have an analytics project right in front of them — log data created by the machines and systems they already have deployed. Analysis of this data can lead to better decisions, problem detection and tighter security. Splunk is a…
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