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Flash + Object – The Emergence of a Two Tier Enterprise

Posted on June 15, 2015 by George Crump

For as long as there has been data there has been a quest to consolidate that data onto a single, consolidated storage system, but that quest seems to never be satisfied. The problem is that there are essentially two types…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloudian, Flash, Flash Array, Internet of Things, IOPS, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Snapshot, VM
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Briefing Note: How to Tackle Big Data and the Internet of Things

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Eric Slack

IT companies around the world are looking at analytics as the holy grail for improving a host of business processes, such as cost reduction, manufacturing efficiency, predictive maintenance, design optimization, etc. And those in large, capital-intensive industries are particularly interested,…

Tagged with: BDA, Big data, Converged Architecture, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Internet of Things, IoT
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It’s time to “VMware” Storage

Posted on April 2, 2015 by George Crump

Before hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM came to market, data centers had few options when it came to managing the growth of their server infrastructure. They could buy one big server that ran multiple applications, which, while it simplified…

Tagged with: Data Mobility, Hypervisors, Internet of Things, ioFABRIC, QOS, Quality of service, Unstructured data, VDI
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Briefing Note: Will Micron’s Automata Processor Solve IT’s Big Data Performance Problem?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Eric Slack

Big Data is becoming a big problem for IT as companies rush to embrace the holy grail of analytics and find their traditional compute infrastructures aren’t up to the task. Storage performance has historically been the limiting factor, even at…

Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, CUP, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, IoT, Micron, PCIe, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Michael Dell’s Keynote – A new company and new products – Dell World 2014

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Eric Slack

During Michael Dell’s keynote presentation at Dell World 2014 the CEO emphasized the company’s renewed customer focus and how they’re leveraging the 2 billion customer conversations they have every year. He didn’t go into how this number was calculated but…

Tagged with: Compellent, DAS, Dell, Dell World, EqualLogic, Flash, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, ISCSI, Nutanix, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Web-scale
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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…

Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
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Overcoming The Risk of Mixing Storage Workloads

Posted on February 20, 2014 by George Crump

Silos of storage within the storage environment are increasing at an alarming rate with each being dedicated to a specific task or workload. Why? The answer is simple: risk mitigation. The data center can’t afford to have applications experience unpredicted…