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Flash + Object – The Emergence of a Two Tier Enterprise

Posted on June 15, 2015 by George Crump

For as long as there has been data there has been a quest to consolidate that data onto a single, consolidated storage system, but that quest seems to never be satisfied. The problem is that there are essentially two types…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloudian, Flash, Flash Array, Internet of Things, IOPS, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Snapshot, VM
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EMC World 2015 – Building a Data Services Community with FAST.X

Posted on May 5, 2015 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing almost every IT organization is storage system sprawl, a problem that is increasing. When we visit a data center there is often a storage system for each workload; one for virtual desktops, one for virtual servers, one for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Briefing Note, Cloud storage, Elas, EMC, EMCworld2015, Object Storage, VMAX
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Briefing Note: Promise Technology Vsky – Helping Enterprises Evolve from Terabytes to Petabytes

Posted on April 14, 2015 by George Crump

Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Promise Technology, RAID, SAN, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: What is Real Software Defined Storage?

Posted on March 11, 2015 by George Crump

When it comes to defining specific parts of the storage industry the definition should be as general as possible, avoiding vendor specifics while not being so generic that it becomes useless and doesn’t categorize anything. We’ve successfully applied this philosophy…

Tagged with: Infrastructure, Object Storage, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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HGST Buys Amplidata – The Beginning of an Object Storage Shopping Spree?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Amplidata, Capacity, HGST, Next Generation, Object, Object Storage
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Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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OpenStack Swift – Should Enterprise Customers DIY or use SwiftStack?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

The amount of storage being generated everyday by enterprises is growing rapidly, with no sign of slowing down. Enterprise IT is now faced with the challenge of storing and managing this data in a world where IT budgets are stagnant…

Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Integration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStack, TCO
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Storage Q&A: How to run Virtual Machines on your OpenStack Infrastructure

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Open vStorage has a new product that will allow you to run virtual machines right on your OpenStack Infrastructure. Storage Crump Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and Open vStorage Product Manager Wim Provoost sat down with me in the…

Tagged with: Block Based Storage, CEPH, Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, Open vStorage, performance, Scale, Virtual machine
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How Object Storage can improve Hadoop

Posted on January 15, 2015 by George Crump

When organizations begin to explore a Hadoop initiative their goal is to create an environment that can help them make better decisions. The more data that the Hadoop environment has access to and the faster that data can be processed,…