The modern data center is very demanding of its network infrastructure. Next-generation networks need to be more than fast. They also need to be smarter and provide deep insight. Speed seems like an obvious requirement, but there is more to…
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Next Generation Networks Are Faster
Tagged with: CISCO, FC-NMVe, LAN, Machine Learning, networking, Next Generation, NVMe, NVMe-F, Virtualization, WAN
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How Next-gen HSM Solutions Complement Backup
Organizations need to backup their data, but if you view backup as a one-size-fits-all job, where all data is treated equally, you’re missing an opportunity for substantial cost savings. Ideally, you could tier storage and create an “active archive” that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, HSM, Hybrid, Next Generation, Object Storage, Replication
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Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016
In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Next Generation, SDS, Software Defined
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Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million
Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…
Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash Array, Flash, NetApp, Next Generation, performance, SolidFire, SSD
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ChalkTalk Video: Maximizing the Potential of NVDIMM Storage Class Memory with Software Defined Memory
Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…
Tagged with: Convergence, Flash, Next Generation, NVDIMM, Plexistor, Software Defined
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The Next Generation File Server
For years, IT professionals have struggled with managing file data. This dataset has become increasingly problematic, often filling up file servers and breaking data protection processes. In recent years, organizations have asked for the distribution of file data to remote…
Tagged with: Cloud, File server, file sync and share, NAS, Nasuni, Next Generation
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The Challenge of Protecting Next Generation Databases
Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, Deduplication, Next Generation, NoSQL, RPO, RTO, SQL, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: Leaping to the Next Generation of Storage – SDS or Full Featured Arrays
As IT professionals begin to refresh or upgrade their storage infrastructure, they are faced with a new set of choices during that process. Do they stick with full featured arrays or do they begin investing in software-defined storage? Join Storage…
SlideShare: Preparing for Disasters that will Actually Happen
For most IT Professionals the term “disaster” evokes images of a data center being burned to the ground or going underwater, a situation they have spent a lot of years and dollars preparing for. But there are other types of…
HGST Buys Amplidata – The Beginning of an Object Storage Shopping Spree?
As we reported last year HGST is on a shopping spree, and that spree continues into 2015 as today HGST announced that is has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Amplidata. The purpose of the Amplidata acquisition is to…
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