For over a decade Network Attached Storage (NAS) was the go to file storage device for organizations needing to store large amounts of unstructured data. But unstructured data is changing. While large file use cases are still prevalent, small file…
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Webinar: NAS vs Object – Can NAS Make a Comeback?
Tagged with: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo
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Your Path to Smarter Secondary Storage
The volume of data that must be backed up continues to increase, to meet compliance regulations and to serve secondary business purposes such as business analytics. At the same time, recovery requirements are becoming more demanding. In the event of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Encryption, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, RTO, SMB, Unstructured data, Veeam
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Getting Hands-on NVMe Experience Without the Cost or the Risk
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) is among the most hyped storage technologies of 2019 – and for good reason. As previously covered by Storage Switzerland, NVMe’s ability to increase queue depths and command counts and to connect directly to storage memory,…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SLA, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Accelerating AI by Solving the Storage Challenge
Artificial Intelligence workloads push current IT architectures to their extremes. For the first time both computing horsepower and All-Flash Storage I/O can be overwhelmed by AI demands. GPUs from companies like Nvidia have largely solved the computing problem but the…
SlideShare: Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe storage systems and NVMe networks promise to reduce latency further and increase performance beyond what SAS based flash systems and current networking technology can deliver. To take advantage of that performance gain, however, the data center must have workloads…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Why Production Workload Modeling for NVMe?
Enterprises are relying on a growing number of applications to run their business. At the same time, these applications carry requirements including performance levels that are simultaneously more divergent and dynamic than ever before. New applications are being spun up…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SLA, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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What is Workload Modeling?
Workload modeling is the process of capturing the IO patterns of a workload so that it can be played back later in a different environment. The goal is to provide a very close simulation of how that workload will respond…
Tagged with: Analytics, ATA, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Why Flash Should Be a Part of Your Data Protection Infrastructure
The time has come. Flash should be a part of an organization’s data protection architecture. The rapid recovery features available in most data protection software all claim in some form to be able to instantiate an application’s volume on the…
Storage Technology Showcase Coming to Dallas-Fort Worth
The storage industry lacks a multi-vendor conference that focuses more on educating IT professionals than on selling gear. Today, most IT conferences are sponsored by a single vendor (VMworld, Dell Technologies, HPE Discover, NetApp Insight and Hitachi Next) there is…
Tape is Dead Throw Everything into the Cloud
The cloud is a valuable tool that almost every data center should leverage. It is, however, just that, a tool. The cloud is not the be all end all answer to all of IT’s problems. It can solve many of…
Tagged with: Archive, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Flash, Malware, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Retention, Tape, Unstructured data
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