A hyperscale data center may have hundreds of instances of multiple applications. At any point in time one of these instances may peak and demand a much higher than normal amount of CPU and storage IO, starving other instances and…
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Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Hyperscale Data Centers – Excelero Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, Convergence, CPU, Excelero, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, IOPS, Mirroring, NVMe, Replication, Software Defined, 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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The Effect of New Memory Technologies on the Data Center
In terms of storage, flash is not the end of the road. New storage and memory technologies will continue to come to market. The next step in storage will have the attributes of RAM but add persistence. Isn’t Flash Perfect?…
The Impact of Persistent Memory in the Data Center
Flash is the form of persistent memory that most IT professional are aware of, and it has fundamentally changed the data center. But we’ve only scratched the surface of what persistent memory is capable of, and flash is not the…
How to Design Self-Service Storage – ioFABRIC Briefing Note
For application owners, storage is an overly complicated ordeal that they must go through in order to get applications up and performing well. Ideally, application owners should be masked from the complexity of the infrastructure. They shouldn’t care which storage…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, DRAM, Encryption, ioFABRIC, IOPS, Latency, NAS, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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Why Do All-Flash Arrays Need QoS?
If all-flash arrays provide instant, unlimited performance, why manage how much of that performance they deliver through techniques like quality of service (QoS)? For most organizations one of the attractions to all-flash arrays is the set and forget answer to…
Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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StorageShort: The Problem With Splunk Storage Management
Of all the new applications on the market today, Splunk does make one of the best attempts to manage storage. It uses a bucket metaphor to make sure data is in the most performance and cost appropriate storage type. When…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Container, Flash, IOPS, performance, Splunk, SSD, Tegile
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Splunk Storage Basics
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data. While there is a lot of talk about “big data initiatives”, this is the big data that organizations have right now. Use cases include predictive analytics for IT operations, security…
Webinar: How To Design High Performance, Cost Effective Splunk Storage
Organizations have an analytics project right in front of them — log data created by the machines and systems they already have deployed. Analysis of this data can lead to better decisions, problem detection and tighter security. Splunk is a…
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