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Scale-Out NAS or Object Storage?

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Unstructured data is becoming a big headache for many organizations. By some estimates, this type of data (user files, emails, PDFs, images, videos, etc.) now accounts for up to 90% of all new data growth. While most of this information quickly…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Cloudian, CloudStack, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, OpenStack, Scalability
Posted in Article, White Paper

Accelerating Application Performance in the Virtualized Environment

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Eric Slack

Hyper-V, like any other virtualized server environment, puts specific strains on (some say it breaks) the traditional storage infrastructure. While a variety of designs have been created to address that issue few systems actually get at the heart of the…

Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Quality of service, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtual reality
Posted in Article

Scale out NAS Backup for Scale out Storage

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Eric Slack

Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, NAS, OptiScale, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton, VirtuoSO
Posted in Product Analysis

Bringing Flash Performance to Mainstream IT Environments

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Eric Slack

Virident’s FlashMax II PCIe solution has some of the best performance available in the industry and the company is enjoying big wins in what’s often called the “hyper-scale” market. These are large service providers, social media and web-based giants that…

Tagged with: FlashMax, PCI Express, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SQL, Virident
Posted in Briefing Note

How Legacy Storage Breaks The Cloud

Posted on March 14, 2013 by George Crump

As business data continues its relentless migration to the cloud, providers of cloud hosted environments and applications are creating the perfect storm for their legacy storage systems, a storm that will break the ‘cloud promise’. These environments require high scalability,…

Tagged with: Cloud computing, Hardware, IOPS, OnApp, Scalability, Service-level agreement, Storage area network, Virtual machine
Posted in Article

Cleversafe is An Established Supplier in the Re-emerging Object Storage Market

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Eric Slack

The explosion of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data Archiving has created use cases where organizations have almost unlimited capacity requirements but still need good retrieval performance. Traditional NAS file storage can’t scale large enough and the deep…

Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, NetApp, Object Storage, Scalability, Shutterfly, Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog

Nimble Solves The Scale-Up or Scale-Out Dilemma

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Eric Slack

Nimble has recognized the challenge of growing storage systems in a performance-critical environment. With traditional, scale-up storage architectures, as more disk capacity is added storage controllers can become the bottleneck, causing performance to suffer. In scale-out storage systems, an appliance…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, Nimble, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note

What is Backup Appliance Sprawl – and how to stop it

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Eric Slack

Appliances have arguably become the de facto product format for new technologies in IT for a number of reasons. They’re complete systems that typically don’t require other components and their ‘plug and play’ implementation is simpler than the software and…

Tagged with: Appliance Sprawl, Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton
Posted in Article