NVMe Flash Arrays promise an unprecedented level of performance thanks to the higher command count, queue depth and PCIe connectivity. Most NVMe Arrays are boasting IOPS statistics of close to one million IOPS and latency in the low hundreds of…
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Are NVMe Flash Arrays Viable for Traditional Workloads?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, ROI, SAS, Western Digital
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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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What to Watch Out For when Moving NAS to the Cloud
Storage managers are pressured to deliver new levels of nimbleness and operational and cost efficiency, while at the same time serve booming pools of unstructured data to highly distributed enterprises. Traditional network-attached storage (NAS) arrays were designed to serve smaller…
A Strategy for NVMe All-Flash in 2019
Hybrid Flash Arrays and All-Flash Arrays are fundamentally changing the way IT designs storage architectures. IT can create virtual environments with much higher virtual machine to physical server ratios, scale-up databases to support exponentially more users and add new workloads…
Protecting Distributed File Data
Where previously unstructured data comprised a minority of the business’s data and was not strategic to the organization, that scale has tipped dramatically. Unstructured data may account for two-thirds or more of the data that businesses are collecting, storing, and…
Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, Unstructured data, WAN
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Hyperscale Data Acceleration – Vexata Briefing Note
Workloads such as high-performance transactional databases, high-volume analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) stand to unlock new value for the business, and non-volatile memory express (NVMe) promises to deliver on these levels of performance. However, deploying NVMe at…
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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Lightboard Video: The Importance of Flash Architectures in Real-Time Workloads
Data centers are adjusting to the flash performance opportunity and are scaling their traditional environments much larger, pushing the storage systems’ architecture much harder than when all-flash arrays were first introduced. These organizations are also introducing real-time applications, like artificial…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ROI, Western Digital
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A Consolidation-Driven Approach to Storage Modernization – INFINIDAT Briefing Note
Enterprises’ storage capacity requirements continue to grow, with many approaching petabyte (PB) scale. At the same time, a greater diversity of workloads is being served, creating the need for multiple storage protocols to address a range of performance, retention and…
Rethinking the SAN for the NVMe Era
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives promise new levels of ultra-low latency and fast performance. The media is beginning to find its way into the enterprise storage environments, on the back of the need to serve the growing number of…
Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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