Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…
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Enterprise Class Open SDS – SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, CEPH, Cloud, HPC, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale, SDS, SMB, SUSE
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note
Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hammerspace, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
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Lightboard Video: The Changing Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments
High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments typically use parallel file systems as the core of their storage architecture. These environments also tend to leverage object storage as a near-line long-term repository of data. Object storage systems though, thanks to improved hardware and…
Lightboard Video: Overcoming IO Bottlenecks in HPC
Parallel file systems are a critical aspect of most Super Computing environments. One of the challenges facing parallel file systems is making sure the file system itself does not become a bottleneck. If not architected correctly, IO can overwhelm the…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Parallel File, SC18, Unstructured data
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The New Requirements of Mainstream HPC Storage – Panasas ActiveStor Briefing Note
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is going mainstream. Commercial organizations, with increasing frequency, are creating HPC architectures. These organizations have large amounts of unstructured data that they need rapid sequential access to for analysis. Also, many organizations require “Big Manufacturing” which is…
Tagged with: HPC, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Panasas, Scalability, Scale-Out, SMB
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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…
Webinar: 2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?
Join Storage Switzerland, Caringo, Cloudian and Scality, for a roundtable discussion on Object Storage. Learn what you need to know to develop a strategy for object storage. Our panel of experts discuss what object storage is, what is better/different about…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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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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Creating a Data Center Compatible Cloud – Elastifile Briefing Note
Organizations spend months creating a “cloud strategy,” and then spend many more months attempting to execute that strategy, sometimes to successful completion but many times the project is abandoned. There are a multitude of problems when transitioning applications to the…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Latency, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, TCO
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Starting Small with Object Storage – Caringo Briefing Note
Organizations of all sizes are dealing with explosive growth in unstructured data. Whether the organization is large or small, they need to store and manage their unstructured data sets cost-effectively. They need an object storage system and software that turns…
Tagged with: Archive, Caringo, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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