Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…
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Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply
Tagged with: Data Protection, Latency, Primary Data, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Challenges can Dunk Splunk Projects
Don’t get caught unaware of the storage challenges of your future Splunk project. If nothing else, at least be aware of the amount of storage that a Splunk project can generate and prepare yourself for the cost of acquiring and…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, ClearSky, Disaster recovery, Latency, Machine-generated, Splunk
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Flash vs. The Cloud
The cloud, both compute and storage, is appealing to IT administrators because they buy the cloud “as a service.” That means an organization can gain access to compute and storage resources as they need them and only when they need…
Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them
Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Hybrid, Latency, QOS, Replication
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A Cloud Vendor Actually in the Clouds
Science fiction is about to be honest to goodness science. The reason? A company called Cloud Constellation will put data centers in space. They call it “SpaceBelt, The Information Ultra-Highway — a cloud vendor above all others.” The idea is…
Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?
Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud…
Tagged with: Capacity, ClearSky, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Encryption, Data Protection, Latency, Unstructured data
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Understanding Flash Performance
Most IT professionals are fully aware that if they have a storage performance problem that a flash based storage system is the answer for them. Flash, to some extent, makes performance a commodity. Almost any flash system can deliver more…
Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Why Low Latency Matters
Enterprise Applications and Dynamic Business Workloads Demand Faster and Faster Response Times Applications are driving the enterprise, whether it is a relatively simple application used by millions of customers or a complex, scalable database that drives an organization’s back end.…
Healthcare Provider leverages All-Flash to Power VDI and Improve Patient Care
VDI projects are some of the most challenging and demanding infrastructure projects today; especially on the storage system. Meeting VDI storage performance demands are particularly critical for healthcare organizations because if a doctor or nurse is waiting on IT infrastructure to do their job that also means that a patient is waiting, one that might need critical care. In this case study we speak with a large healthcare provider that is leveraging All-Flash to meet the demands of VDI in Healthcare.
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Infrastructure, Latency, VDI, XtremIO
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