To many IT professionals, tape media and tape libraries seem like an ancient technology used by the “old” IT guys. The reality is tape as a technology can be of significant value to the organization. Almost every data center is…
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Reintroducing Tape to the Modern Data Center – Myth Busting Tape’s Shortcomings
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Lightboard Video: The State of the File System Market
“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…
Overcoming the Real Roadblock to the All-Flash Data Center
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…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HDD, NFS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QLC, S3, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Tape, VAST Data
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SwiftStack for AI, ML and DL
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,…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Deep Learning, DL, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, SwiftStack
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?
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…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HDD, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, SSD, Veeam
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Lightboard Video: Does the SSD Architecture Really Matter?
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…
Bringing the Cloud Model to On-Premises Flash Storage – StorPool Briefing Note
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…
The Requirements of a SmartStore Storage Infrastructure
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…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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How Splunk SmartStore Enables Scalable Business Intelligence
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…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Why Metadata Might be Impeding Your Flash Performance
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…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, HDD, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ROI, SSD, Western Digital
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