The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…
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Webinar: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?
Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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What to Look For in a Modern Storage Network
Legacy storage network architectures can’t keep up with the scale and performance requirements of modern data sets and workloads such as the Internet of Things (IoT) analytics, creating the need for transformation to support new business demands. Fibre Channel is…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash Array, CISCO, FCoE, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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The ROI of a Flash and Object Storage Architecture
The flash+object storage architecture creates a cost effective, two tier storage architecture in the data center. It enables IT to better meet performance demands of applications and the retention demands of unstructured data. Ideally the organization can reduce the size…
Delivering Storage for Web-Scale IT in the Enterprise – Excelero Briefing Note
A web-scale data center needs to scale to support thousands if not millions of users. Web-scale application use cases range from traditional transactional IT to modern data analytics and machine learning workloads. It also includes new advanced video applications and…
What Ever Happened to the Software Defined Data Center?
About a decade ago, VMware introduced the vision of a software-defined data center (SDDC). Unlike data centers of yesteryear, a software-defined data center was supposed to leverage intelligent software and commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that could…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hypervisor, IOPS, Machine Learning, NVMe, Object Storage, SDDC, Software Defined, Thin provisioning
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Modernizing NAS Instead of Replacing It – Qumulo Briefing Note
Organizations are almost universally struggling with storing and managing their unstructured data. From a storage system perspective, vendors offer legacy NAS systems, object storage systems and cloud storage services, all trying to convince IT professionals that they are the best…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, Qumulo, SAS, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for less than $95,000!
All-Flash Arrays are the model of inefficiency and as flash media increases in density and performance, the cost of this inefficiency becomes more obvious. Enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) deliver 70,000 IOPS per drive but most AFAs need 24 drives or…
Is All-Flash Deduplication a Must Have?
In the early days of All-Flash Arrays (AFA) deduplication was a key catalyst for adoption. Server and Desktop virtualization environments benefited greatly from the technology because of the similarity between virtual machine images. The environments also didn’t have the same…
Does All-Flash Array Software Improve Performance?
The raw performance of a single enterprise flash drive is often higher than 70,000 IOPS. Most all-flash arrays, even though vendors fill them with 12 to 24 flash drives, deliver only a few hundred thousand IOPS. The cause of the…
Making Storage for AI and DL Turnkey – DDN – NVIDIA Briefing Note
When an organization moves Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) projects from the test and design phase to production, the responsibility for maintaining that project often lands in IT’s lap. IT then has to put together an architecture that…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, NVIDIA, NVMe, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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