Couchbase and Cassandra count on the active data set to be in RAM. To overcome the RAM limits of a single server and to make more compute available, the environments run in a cluster that aggregates the RAM and CPU…
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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…
Making Object Storage do more
SwiftStack Briefing Note IT knows about object storage for its ability to store trillions of files, or objects, scale to almost limitless capacities and do it inexpensively. Cloud storage providers are accepting the technology with open arms, but enterprises are…
Tagged with: Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Scale, SDS, SwiftStack, Unstructured
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Posted in Briefing Note
Backing up Massive Cloud Databases
Where traditional structured databases are seeing a reduction in growth, massively scalable databases that often run in the cloud are taking off. But like so many advances in technology, scale out databases like MongoDB and Cassandra are solving one group…
Tagged with: API, Backup, Cloud, Datos IO, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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Posted in Briefing Note
Asigra is Backing up Docker Containers
The first commercial solution designed for backing up containers is here. So the first question is: do you need to back up containers? The answer is really up to you. Whether or not they need backup depends on how you…
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…
Making Object Storage Simpler at Petabyte Scale with Intelligent Management
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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NAS vs. Object: Performance – Thinly Provisioned NAS
Network Attached Storage (NAS) filers were originally designed to be a central repository that provides fast access to frequently changing files on primary storage. NAS also makes it simple to add more storage capacity over existing Ethernet networks. However, the…
Tagged with: Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Scale, SDS, Storage Sprawl, Thin provisioning, Unstructured data
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