Several NVMe flash vendors are claiming that NVMe Flash has reached price parity with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) based flash. The claim is true or pretty close to true in most situations. Vendors are selling their NVMe flash drives for…
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Converged Data Protection – The Components Matter
Converged or hyperconverged data protection typically delivers a solution to the customer as a single SKU, but that SKU is made up of several components. Each component within the converged architecture is critical to the overall success of the solution.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft, VMware
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Why Workload Modeling and Monitoring for NVMe-oF?
When migrating to new technology, it is always important to conduct a careful cost/benefit analysis, to understand what the return on the new investment will be. It is also necessary to be sure that the investment will provide desired outcomes…
HYCU Integrates with Nutanix Mine
Streamlined and More Flexible HCI for Backup In a world of infrastructure and application sprawl, consolidation is becoming a popular topic to reduce complexity and costs. We have seen steps forward in production environments, driven in no small part by…
Tagged with: Cloning, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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Democratizing Disaster Recovery
VeeamON Briefing Note – Veeam Availability Orchestrator 2.0 Disaster Recovery (DR) is about more than just recovering data. When a data center is down and applications need to restart in another location, there is a whole series of events that…
Tagged with: Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, dr, NFS, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VeeamON 2019
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Object Storage: More than Just Archive?
Object storage is typically almost exclusively associated with archive use cases. Long-term retention use cases are important when it comes to ensuring compliance, and object storage indeed functions effectively as a low-cost and searchable data repository. At the same time,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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15 Minute Webinar: NVMe Readiness Assessment
Most All-Flash Arrays were bought in the last few years and have not come anywhere close to “end of life,” yet most vendors are now shipping NVMe All-Flash Arrays which offer better performance. As enticing as these new systems might…
The Requirements of a Modern Data Protection Architecture
Previously, Storage Switzerland wrote about the challenges of trying to meet modern data protection requirements with legacy technologies, including the inability to scale-out and limited cloud integration. We also discussed the pros and cons of new backup appliances and converged…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, NFS, Replication, RTO, SaaS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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How to Make Storage Consolidation Work in the Modern Data Center
Most data centers give up on their storage consolidation projects. The storage mainframe approach described in blog 2 is too costly and too restrictive, and the traditional software-defined storage approach described in blog 3 doesn’t support broad enough use cases.…
Tagged with: Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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Overcoming NFS as a Machine Learning Inhibitor – Quobyte Briefing Note
In today’s insights economy, much can be gleaned from the hyperscale cloud (Amazon, Google, Azure) providers’ ability to deliver an infrastructure that provides strong degrees of data resiliency and protection, agility, and performance – with minimal intervention from storage administrators.…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, HDD, HPC, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, QOS, Quobyte, SSD
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