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Solving the Problem that SDS Does not

Posted on November 11, 2016 by George Crump

FormationOne Briefing Note Most data centers are not really out of capacity, they are just out of capacity that they can get to in any meaningful way. Confused? Let me explain. The problem is the capacity is spread across potentially…

Tagged with: Capacity, CDP, DRaaS, Flash, FormationOne, QOS, Replication, SDS, SSD, VM
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Raising the Bar on Hyperconvergence, Storage and QoS

Posted on August 29, 2016 by George Crump

Pivot3 Briefing Note IT professionals have a lot of choices to make when they design their next generation infrastructure. They have to choose between a hyperconverged offering that consolidates compute, storage and networking into a single tier or a more…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Latency, PCIe, performance, Pivot3, QOS, Replication, Shared Storage, Snapshots
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Software Defined Data Center for Enterprises

Posted on August 2, 2016 by George Crump

HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, HTBase, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, SDS, Virtualization
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The Need for Storage Fragmentation

Posted on June 20, 2016 by George Crump

Here is the goal: Having a data center that consolidates all data onto a single storage system from one vendor. The hope is that by consolidating to a single system, the organization will reduce management headaches that IT administrators face…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Mobility, FC, Flash, Fragmentation, NAS, Object Storage, Primary Data, QOS, Virtualization
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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them

Posted on June 9, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute…

Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Hybrid, Latency, QOS, Replication
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EMC World 2016 – EMC’s All-Flash Unity

Posted on May 5, 2016 by George Crump

EMC chose their annual user conference, EMC World 2016 as EMC’s coming out party for a new storage offering: Unity. While all the marketing around Unity focuses on an $18,000 all-flash configuration it is a hybrid solution available in hard…

Tagged with: All-Flash, EMC, EMC World 2016, Flash, QOS, SSD, XtremIO
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Making Object Storage Simpler at Petabyte Scale with Intelligent Management

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

Organizations struggling to store and manage an ever rising flood of unstructured data turned to the cloud and object storage in order to contain or reduce costs. But, over time many of them discovered that increasing, recurring costs to store…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, CSP, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SDS, SMB
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Is Hyperconverged worth the Hype?

Posted on March 23, 2016 by George Crump

Hyperconvergence is capturing the attention of IT professionals. The apparent simplicity of the technology is certainly appealing to an IT staff that is often stretched too thin to properly manage the environment. As a result the IT staff is often…

Tagged with: Backup, Hyperconvergence, Nexenta, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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All-Flash Array Hardware AND Software Matters

Posted on January 25, 2016 by George Crump

HDS Flash Update Briefing Note IT professionals typically purchase all-flash arrays (AFA) to solve storage performance problems in their database, virtual desktop, virtual server and HPC environments. They are the performance sledgehammer that makes I/O concerns a thing of the…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hitachi Data Systems, performance, QOS, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
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The Advantages of Storage Sprawl

Posted on January 19, 2016 by George Crump

Fighting storage sprawl may sound like the right thing to do but for some data centers storage sprawl is a reality that they can’t stop. There are too many moving parts. Instead of fighting it, it may make more sense to face reality. Learn how second generation software-defined storage enables IT to embrace sprawl.

Tagged with: Capacity, Consolidation, ioFABRIC, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Sprawl
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