Most of today’s modern storage systems have a scale-out design, meaning they can expand to meet almost all of the data center’s capacity requirements. Also, since an increasing number of these systems are all-flash, they can meet most data center’s…
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Video: Why Does the MLB Network use Tape?
The MLB Network is baseball’s premier broadcasting channel. It features non-stop 24-hour coverage of one of America’s favorite pastimes including complete game coverage, live look-ins, and in-depth analysis. The amount of data that the sport creates throughout a single season…
Does NVMe Flash Mean the End of SAS Flash?
Before NVMe, most flash systems were either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based. In all-flash arrays, SAS was the preferred protocol because of its higher bandwidth and ability to support multi-port connections. NVMe is the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, SATA, Western Digital
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Modernizing NAS Instead of Replacing It – Qumulo Briefing Note
Organizations are almost universally struggling with storing and managing their unstructured data. From a storage system perspective, vendors offer legacy NAS systems, object storage systems and cloud storage services, all trying to convince IT professionals that they are the best…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, Qumulo, SAS, Unstructured data
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Is the Data Center Ready for Flash Archives? – Nimbus Data Briefing Note
Archiving, as a concept, looks great on paper. It alleviates primary storage capacity, simplifies data protection and lowers overall storage cost. The problem is when it is necessary to search for and retrieve data in that archive, or worst case…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archiving, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Nimbus Data, SSD, Tape
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When Will The Storage Performance Bubble Burst – Cisco Briefing Note
Many data centers are experiencing a performance bubble. They have more than they need. The move from high latency hard disk systems to almost zero latent flash arrays delivers dramatic performance in every case. But this bubble will burst and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Containers, FC, Flash, Hard disk, NVMe, SCSI, Virtualization
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The State of Storage Architectures
Storage architectures evolved from the legacy scale-up architectures to scale-out architectures. Scale-out architectures evolved into hyperconverged architectures. The data center is also evolving, of course, but at an even faster pace. The problem is all this storage evolution has not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Kaminario, NVMe, Redundancy, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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StorageShort: Can You Convert from Fibre Channel to iSCSI or NFS?
When it comes time for a storage refresh, one of the first decisions an organization needs to make is whether it will stick with its legacy storage network or go another way. For most organizations this means deciding if they…
Flash can’t Flatten Storage
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…
StorageShort: Flash and Big Data?
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…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hard disk, IBM, Latency, Shared Storage, SSD
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