Driving down the cost of NAS is a top priority because these systems continue to require increasing amounts of capacity and need to meet new performance challenges. The increase in demand stems from the organization’s need to support more and…
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Designing Shared Storage for Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka, TensorFlow
As analytics environments like Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka and TensorFlow continue to scale, organizations need to find a way to create a shared infrastructure that can deliver the bandwidth, flexibility, and efficiency that these environments need. In a recent Storage Intensity…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI
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Webinar: Designing Storage Infrastructures for AI Workloads
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads are fundamentally different from any other workload. These workloads deal in data sets measured in dozens of petabytes of capacity, and large percentages of it can go from dormant to active at…
Can Current Storage Infrastructure Meet the AI at Scale Demand?
In our last blog we covered the challenges that AI at scale creates for storage infrastructures. To support the coming wave of AI applications, storage infrastructures need to deliver a tremendous amount of storage capacity with the ability to retain…
File Servers; Is It Time to Say Goodbye?
Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data in the data center. A significant portion of data within unstructured data is the data that users create though office productivity and other specialized applications. User data also often represents the bulk…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Ransomware, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VPN
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Posted in Briefing Note
Understanding Software-Defined File Systems
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a frequently used term that can have different definitions depending on the vendor using the term. SDS solutions can be block, file, or object-based. File systems are almost always software-defined and nearly always run on top…
Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage
Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud NAS, Cohesity, Compression, Deduplication, Dev/Test, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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Posted in Briefing Note
Understanding the Challenges That AI at Scale Creates
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in its infancy and the requirements it places on the storage architectures that support these workloads are not widely understood. As a result, an organization starting an AI initiative can initially get away with using an…
How to Create a Cloud File Server – LucidLink Briefing Note
Most enterprises have invested in several, if not dozens of file servers or network-attached storage (NAS) systems to distribute and share data. The cost to purchase, upgrade, and eventually replace these systems is expensive. Also, the typical user, while often…
Tagged with: Endpoint, LucidLink, Metada, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SaaS, SMB
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Posted in Briefing Note
When is Object Storage NOT the Answer?
Object storage plays an essential role in today’s data center, but that does not mean that organizations need to give up on their network-attached storage (NAS) solutions. While the capacity demands of unstructured data are growing at alarming rates, the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Qumulo, Retention, SMB, Unstructured data
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