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EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Briefing Note, Disaster recovery, EMC, EMCworld2015, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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Three new considerations for Scale-Out and Scale-Up All-Flash Architectures

Posted on April 29, 2015 by George Crump

A couple of years ago Storage Switzerland wrote an article “Scale Out or Scale Up? – 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer”. The points made in that article are still relevant, but vendors in both architecture camps have…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Density, Flash, performance, Pure, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual
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Hadoop and OpenStack for Enterprise Big Data – Moving from Erector Set to Ready To Go

Posted on April 28, 2015 by George Crump

Big Data Analytics is more than just an interesting IT initiative, these infrastructures are starting to re-shape how businesses develop new products, respond to customer needs and achieve new levels of efficiency. The problem is that most Hadoop environments, the…

Tagged with: Big data, Capacity, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Reliability, Scale-Out
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MeetTheCEO: Hedvig’s Avinash Lakshman Brings Distributed Systems Approach to Storage

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

A key designer of the infrastructures of Amazon and Facebook, Hedvig’s CEO, Avinash Lakshman brings a distributed systems approach to storage. Hedvig is a storage software company that delivers a highly distributed platform which is designed to run on off…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Hedvig, Infrastructure, MeetTheCEO, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl
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Briefing Note: Hedvig brings Software Defined Storage into focus

Posted on March 25, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) may still be a fuzzy concept in the average data center but its promised deliverables are in clear focus. Data center managers are looking for ways to rapidly improve storage provisioning times while increasing overall flexibility.…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Infrastructure, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Eric Slack

Scale-out storage has a fundamental weakness, according to startup Qumulo, it can grow easily but also increases data management requirements as it does capacity. This means that as storage systems grow they get less efficient and more expensive to run,…

Tagged with: Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Object, performance, Qumulo, Scale-Out, SSD
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All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study

Posted on March 18, 2015 by George Crump

When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, EMC, Flash, HDD, I/O, Scale-Out, SSD, TCO, XtremIO
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Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Eric Slack

Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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Quantum’s Q-Cloud Integrates the Cloud into StorNext and DXi Environments

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

The cloud offers a number of significant benefits for IT organizations, especially flexibility, as it allows companies to expand resource capacity on a moment’s notice. Cloud-based storage and services also provide a way to shift infrastructure costs from upfront, capital…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disk, Efficiency, Hybrid, Metadata, Quantum, Scale-Out, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…