When assessing Enterprise File Sync and Share services (EFSS), it’s essential to understand the concept of the copy of record. What is the “copy of record?” The term is borrowed from the legal world, and it refers to the original…
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Where Is The Copy of Record in a File Sync & Share Service? – CTERA Product Spotlight
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, CTERA, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Latency
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Posted in Product Spotlight
The Impact of Extremely High Density SSD Drives – Viking Technology Briefing Note
The next generation of solid state drives (SSD) are coming to market. Some are focused on performance and are leveraging NVMe connectivity to reduce latency. Others are focused on extremely high capacity (50TBs+) and are designed for dense data center…
When Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
Beating Down The Local SSD Myth – E8 Storage Briefing Note
The All-Flash Array market is at a crossroads. The SSD drives they use are getting faster but the systems that hold those drives are not. Today a single NVMe SSD is capable of greater than 700k IOPS, but most AFA…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Container, E8, Fabril, Latency, NoSQL, NVMe, Replication, SQL, SSD, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Can The Storage Channel Solve The Cloud Storage Latency Problem
While cloud storage has plenty of benefits, its biggest weakness, latency, keeps it from receiving full adoption. The solution may be found in a group of businesses that many think cloud storage replaces, storage resellers. If they can solve the…
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?…
How To Network All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash arrays, or almost any array that leverages flash, creates a problem for the rest of the storage infrastructure. It exposes weaknesses in storage software, internal storage system networking and external connectivity. In the past these architecture components hid behind…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bandwidth, FC, Flash, flash memory summit, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Latency, NVMe, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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What’s Wrong with a Cloud First Strategy – Velostrata Briefing Note
The problem with a cloud first strategy is organizations assume clouds are the ultimate data centers, that the organization can’t do it better themselves. The reality is that there are some functions where the cloud is more optimal. Then there…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, Latency, Migration, Object Storage, RAM, SSD, Velostrata, VM, WAN
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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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