Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and…
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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Break Vendor Lock-in with Data Virtualization
For quite some time now, organizations have struggled to keep up with explosive data growth that continues to grow exponentially each year. In addition to the never ending demand for faster application response times, most data now needs to be…
Tagged with: Capacity, Metadata, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Webinar: Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing
Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, IBM, performance
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Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters – DriveScale Briefing Note
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
Tagged with: Capacity, DriveScale, JBODS, performance, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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NoSQL is Breaking Storage
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. However this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. These modern applications all count on DRAM memory to deliver rapid results to user…
Webinar: Overcoming the Storage Challenges Cassandra and Couchbase Create
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. But this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. Storage in the broad sense. In-memory databases perform well when there is enough memory…
Webinar: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
StorageShort: The Problems with IOPS Testing
When IT professionals begin investigating all-flash arrays they are often drawn to the IOPS benchmark that almost every vendor uses to boast about system performance. The reality is that IOPS, while it may have some value, should be just one…
Tagged with: Data Direct Networks, DDN, Flash, IOPS, performance, SAN, Scale, SDS
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Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes
Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to…
SlideShare: Getting Beyond Flash 101 – Flash 102 Selecting the Right Flash Array
IT professionals are convinced: Flash is the key to solving their storage performance challenges. The next step is selecting what flash makes the most sense for their organization’s specific needs. Do they need maxed-out flash performance for a highly transactional…
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