Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash…
At the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit there was a lot of discussion about data management and making sure the right data is on the right storage tier at the right time. Data management has been a core IT function…
If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this and provide NFS support. The problem is most of these vendors leverage a NFS gateway to act as the bridge.…
Panzura Delivers Panzura Inside As the time comes to upgrade the storage infrastructure, organizations typically consider two options; an all-flash array or a hyperconverged architecture. While both designs solve many of the challenges data centers face, both are missing a…
It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense…
For over a decade, network attached storage systems (NAS) have tried to expand beyond the typical use case of a store for user home directories. Companies like NetApp maintain NFS is perfectly appropriate for supporting virtual infrastructures and Oracle databases.…
To keep costs down, hard disk drive was the storage of choice for the data that drives a big data analytics project inside the server that is doing the processing. Internal storage keeps costs down and reduces network latency but…
Many vendors position all-flash arrays arrays as the performance cure-all, especially for virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V. But flash is actually only the first step, other aspects like connectivity, data protection and disaster recovery need to be considered as…
All-Flash Arrays solve many performance problems that virtual environments face and mitigates the storage I/O blender. The problem is that after these arrays are implemented the time to provision networking resources to the array can take weeks. During operation, provisioning…
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
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