“Software-defined” is all the buzz, driven by the opportunity to cut costs and avoid vendor lock-in without impacting performance. The problem is that few file system vendors are able to truly deliver on this value proposition. In the following Lightboard…
All-Flash storage is taking over many, but not all, production storage responsibilities but because of cost, most organizations can’t justify placing all production workloads on all-flash storage. These organizations then certainly can’t justify placing secondary storage and data protection workloads…
How to Build a Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline for AI, ML and DL Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are experiencing rapid adoption in a number of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, pharmaceutical drug research, predictive maintenance,…
Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…
It is easy to get caught up in the maximum performance potential of solid-state drives (SSDs), especially as we move into the era of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) access protocols. However, in reality, applications and service level agreements (SLAs) cannot…
Legacy storage-area network (SAN) architectures are notoriously expensive and complex, leading many enterprises to consider migrating workloads off-premises. However, the public cloud model carries recurring costs that add up over time; with the growing petabytes of data that need to…
Splunk SmartStore enables organizations to achieve a high degree of compute/storage elasticity and makes it possible to achieve longer data retention without compromising performance or breaking the budget. A critical component of SmartStore is the storage system that it uses…
Previously, Storage Switzerland wrote about the need to be able to scale compute and storage independently, when it comes to serving distributed Splunk data sets for business intelligence. In this blog, we investigate Splunk’s recently launched SmartStore capability, and how…
Metadata is an often overlooked but leading storage performance bottleneck. Metadata maps how files are stored on disks, and it summarizes characteristics of file attributes such as author and last date of access. As such, it is crucial to data…
Splunk enables organizations to analyze data that IT operations, security and the various lines of business create. The more of this data that is available for analysis the better decisions IT can make. Ideally organizations want their Splunk environment data…
