The first phase of software defined storage (SDS) is bringing many benefits to the data center. Its abstraction of storage software from the storage hardware enables organizations to manage all their storage assets from a single view, along with a…
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Moving Beyond the Flash Storage Basics
Most vendors, when they talk to a IT professional about flash storage, still focus on two factors. First, it is fast and second, it is now affordable. Here is a heads up to flash to the vendor community…IT gets it.…
Webinar: 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…
Tape vs Cloud for Archive and Cold Data
As my colleague, George Crump, discussed in a previous article, “What is Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, cloud storage is great for processing active data but becomes increasingly expensive for storing cold data that is seldom accessed. While…
Software Defined Storage meets Parallel I/O
In terms of storage performance, the actual drive is no longer the bottleneck. Thanks to flash storage, attention has turned to the hardware and software that surrounds them, especially the capabilities of the CPU that drives the storage software. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DataCore, Flash, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, I/O, IOPS, Scale, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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SlideShare: Five Reasons the Enterprise Needs HPC Technology
Up until the past year or two, High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments and the enterprise data center have been separate domains. But now the data intensive demands of analytics, migrations to cloud infrastructures and ever growing numbers of users looking to…
MeetTheCEO: Containerized CEO DH2i’s Don Boxley
DH2i’s Don Boxley joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges on this week’s MeetTheCEO. Boxley founded DH2i with OJ Ngo five years ago. The company is becoming a leader in the Windows Server Market and is now enabling Docker like container…
Podcast: Bringing Docker-Like Technology to Windows with Container – How and Why
Docker brings efficiency to the Linux environment, allowing more applications to run on the same physical hardware via a container technology. Microsoft has committed to bringing similar technology to Windows in the future but what if you want to take…
The Modern Data Center is an HPC Environment
In the last few months, I’ve heard several Fortune 100 company CEOs claim that they are software companies first, manufacturers of products second. These CEOs are not from high-tech startups, instead most of them are makers of everyday items like…
ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
The Need to Share The wide spread proliferation of public file sync and share services like Dropbox, Box and various others, make it very easy to share almost any type of file regardless of its size, with anyone you want.…
Tagged with: Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, ownCloud, performance, Scale, Shadow IT
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