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How to Avoid the All-Flash Capacity Glut

Posted on October 3, 2018 by George Crump

Next generation all-flash arrays (AFA) face a serious problem; they will provide more capacity than most data centers need. While too much capacity doesn’t sound like a problem it will be because organizations are still going to pay for it.…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, IOPS, NVMe, SDS, SSD, Storage Capacity, StorONE
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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Exposes New Storage Bottlenecks

Posted on September 27, 2018 by George Crump

IT administrators have reached a level of confidence with VMware and other hypervisors that make them more comfortable with virtualizing mission-critical workloads, like Oracle, SAS, and SAP. The goal is to gain the flexibility of a virtual compute infrastructure to…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, Virtualization
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Solving the Software Defined Storage Bottleneck – Mellanox Briefing Note

Posted on September 25, 2018 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts commodity storage hardware so that it can be used in a scale-out architecture, but this can create a bottleneck between the CPU and the storage media. In many cases, the latency of hard disk drives…

Tagged with: Cloud, CPU, Flash, Mellanox, NVMe, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Solving the Flash Density Pipes Problem

Posted on September 19, 2018 by George Crump

The density of flash storage is increasing every year, 64TB solid state drives (SSD) are arriving next year, and within a year the data center may see 100TB+ SSDs become commonplace. Another significant change is that the data center, thanks…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Storage, Hyper Converged Storage, Hyper-scale, IoT, Machine Learning, NGD Systems, NVMe, SSD
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Webinar: How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for less than $95,000!

Posted on September 11, 2018 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, IOPS, NVMe, SDS, SSD, Storage Capacity, StorONE
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Designing an All-Flash Data Management Strategy

Posted on August 29, 2018 by George Crump

Thanks to decreasing flash media pricing and data efficiency technologies like deduplication, all-flash arrays are now commonplace in many data centers. In most cases though, the purchases of first generation all-flash arrays were to solve a specific performance problem. Now…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Tegile, Western Digital
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ChalkTalk Video: Computational Storage With In-Situ Processing

Posted on August 28, 2018 by George Crump

What is Computational Storage? It only takes a few NVMe flash drives to saturate a server’s PCIe Bus. Network those NVMe flash drives and the situation only gets worse. Computational Storage solves the problem by placing compute capabilities directly on…

Tagged with: Computational Storage, Encryption, Flash, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, PCIe, SSD, VMworld2018
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Making a Hybrid Array Work for the Enterprise

Posted on August 21, 2018 by George Crump

Hybrid storage systems create a performance concern for IT professionals. The system may respond too slowly to user or application requests for data. If the hybrid system places data on the wrong storage tier at the wrong time, it validates…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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Creating a Real-time Storage Network

Posted on August 20, 2018 by George Crump

Traditionally, systems create data, process it, and then store it for a time before accessing it again in response to a user request. Essentially, data is processed in batches. In the modern data center, the move is toward real-time analysis…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, DAS, FCoE, HCI, Hyperscale, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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Next Generation Networks Are Faster

Posted on July 31, 2018 by George Crump

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…