Object Storage, because of its ability to cost effectively store petabytes plus of data, is often thought of as a digital dumping ground. While object storage is an ideal location for inactive data, customers aren’t deriving the full benefit of…
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Lightboard Video: Object Storage Isn’t Just For Cold Data Anymore
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Using HCI to Optimize SMB and ROBO Storage Availability, Capacity and Performance – StarWind Briefing Note
IT organizations at small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch office (ROBO) environments face unique challenges. Like their counterparts at larger organizations, they are pressured to empower new, data-driven business insights in real-time, to respond with agility to dynamic business…
Tagged with: Flash, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, Replication, ROBO, SDS, SLA, SMB, StarWind, Tape, Virtualization, VM
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Are Storage Infrastructures Fixing the Wrong Problem? – Formulus Black Briefing Note
When the CPU needs data, the role of the storage system is to transfer information into main memory so the CPU can process it. The memory channels between the CPU and main memory is very fast and the number of…
Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Formulus Black, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, NVDIMM, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SSD
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How to Beat Amazon, Google and Microsoft – Wasabi Briefing Note
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are commonly referred to as the “big three” cloud providers and many assume their strangle hold on those top spots is very secure. The reality is that the big three in any industry…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Flash, HDD, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Wasabi
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Why is Software Defined Storage Failing to Consolidate Storage?
After enterprises decide not to use the storage mainframe described in our last blog they often next investigate software-defined storage (SDS) as a means to consolidate their storage and reduce storage costs. With SDS, consolidation occurs at the storage software…
Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Flash, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization
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Why Storage is a Virtualization ROI Killer – And How to Fix It
Virtualization brings the advantage of being able to run a multitude of workloads on the same physical infrastructure. In theory, virtualization promises IT professionals better infrastructure utilization and simplified management. The reality that many are finding, however, is in fact…
SlideShare: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs
Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Lightboard Video: Is Now the Time to Move to NVMe Flash?
A common question from IT professionals is when is the right time to start purchasing NVMe Arrays over SAS-based All-Flash Arrays. The answer as always is, it depends, but as George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland discusses in this…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Use Cases for Computational Storage
Previously, Storage Switzerland has discussed the value of computational storage, or adding compute power directly to storage media to enable data to be processed in place, in serving modern workloads – as well as its impact on future forward data…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NGD Systems, NVMe, PCIe, SSD
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15 Minute Friday Webinar: Rethinking Storage Performance for Modern Applications
Modern applications process large segments of data, often in parallel. These applications need to match patterns across a multitude of object and vectors or regularly update multiple indices as they change over time. Storage IO and network latency quickly become…
Tagged with: Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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