It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data repositories that are well in excess of this heady…
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The All-Flash operating system for the Next Generation Data Center
All-flash solutions are fast, but not all flash solutions will solve your performance problems. In the enterprise, in the public and private clouds, speed alone isn’t enough. All-flash arrays should also be able to guarantee predictable service levels for each…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Next Generation Data Center, Scale-Out, SolidFire
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Webinar: Should your Storage be Virtualized, Software Defined or none of the above?
Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
Tagged with: Scale-Out, server-side storage, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
How to design Storage for the Next Generation Data Center
Being a cloud provider is a challenging proposition. Like a utility, a cloud provider (public or private) has to support almost any level of user consumption and maintain that support as demand changes, with little or no advanced notice. These…
The Next Generation Data Center – Podcast
Changes are coming to the Data Center. It will be highly virtualized with extremely high virtual machine densities. It will thrive on flexibility, cost and efficiency. To talk about The Next Generation Data Center is Jay Prassl from SolidFire and Storage Switzerland…
Tagged with: Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Scale-Out, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
Rethinking Enterprise Storage
With soaring data growth occurring across all industries, IT planners need to rethink how they design and implement enterprise storage technology. Traditional NAS and SAN platforms have served as the bulwark of data center storage capacity for decades, however, storing…
Tagged with: Cloudian, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage, Storage-As-A-Service
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear
Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, NAS, NGOSS, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
Are You Designing Backup for the Future or the Past?
Will your backup infrastructure look the same today as it will next year or the year after that? Or are you anticipating that due to the pressures brought on by growing virtualized server environments and its associated data growth, that…
How Backup Disk Architecture Impacts the Backup Window
Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in…
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