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…
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How Do You Search an Amazon S3 Bucket? – Scality Briefing Note
With Amazon S3’s native search capabilities, users are limited only to searching the name of the object. Most people however, want to search by many things in addition to the name of the object. Specifically, they would like to be…
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?…
StorageShort: Breaking Data Migration Myths
Typically IT has to perform a data migration from an old storage system to a new one every few years. The old system has either come off of maintenance, is out of capacity, or can’t deliver the performance the organization…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Data Center Modernization Needs a Fabric – MapR-XD Briefing Note
There are four storage trends driving data center modernization. These trends are enabling storage architectures that are both dense and have massive scale, while also providing rapid response to applications and analytics. At the same time organizations are global and…
How To Integrate On-Premises Storage To Cloud Storage?
In response to a polling question in our recent webinar, “Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain,” 27 percent of the respondents indicated their biggest challenge was integrating on-premises storage with the cloud. While general data migration…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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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 Do You Manage Petabytes of Data?
Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HGST, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Network Integrated Data Management – Infinite io Briefing Note
Where and how a data management solution engages with data affects how much value the solution can deliver. The problem is that most data management solutions are passive; they wait until data reaches a certain state prior to taking action.…
Use Your Metadata to Eliminate Storage Complexity
Organizations need to break down the walls between storage systems and data center locations. Seamless data movement eliminates the need for data migration, optimizes storage resources and even eliminates cloud lock-in. But how does the organization facilitate this movement without…
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