At some point every IT team ventures out on a mission to consolidate its storage assets. Over the years the organization probably has created a collection of systems that do a variety of tasks ranging from systems for high-performance storage…
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Reshaping the Storage Technology Landscape – Kaminario Briefing Note
The storage industry isn’t changing; it is reshaping. What is the difference? If the industry were changing, it would be its choice to change, driven by internal motivations. Instead, outside influences are reshaping the industry. What are the primary drivers…
Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, dr, Kaminario, NVMe, NVMe-F, Replication, SAS, SDDC, SDS, SSD
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Consolidating Applications and Environments – Red Hat CEPH Storage 3 Briefing Note
Data Modernization is a lot like transitioning from being a child to being an adult. The in-between stage, known as the teenage years, can be a bit messy. Instead of going from young to old, data center modernization is transitioning…
Tagged with: Container, Data modernization, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, Metadata, Object Storage, Red Hat, ROI, Scale, SDS
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Never Obsolete Without the Green
Recently, storage vendors started to promote a concept of evergreen storage. Essentially, the vendor will swap out the customer’s storage hardware with the latest, more capable hardware at some point in the maintenance contract. The problem is this swap-out is…
StorageShort: What are the Use Cases for Composable Storage?
A composable storage system can be virtually subdivided into independent arrays that provide more specific control over the allocation of performance and capacity. As opposed to quality of service (QoS), which tries to make sure certain applications get the performance…
Open Software Defined Storage Becomes Enterprise Ready – SUSE Enterprise Storage Update
Software Defined Storage vendors claim “no vendor lock-in” as one of their mantras. While these solutions do allow the intermixing of various vendor hardware, the organization adopting the SDS solution is hopelessly locked into the SDS vendor from a software…
Ceph: Roll Your Own or Turnkey?
Ceph offers an open source storage alternative to those who need object, block, and file services. Initially developed at UC Santa Cruz and funded by a number of government agencies, Ceph has grown into a very interesting solution for a…
Tagged with: CEPH, Cluster, Concurrent, Migrate, Open Source, Replication, Scale, SDS, TCO
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Hyperconverged Solutions Need Long Term Flexibility
There is only one constant in the data center – change. Change, at least in the data center, is good. Done right, it delivers more performance in less space while reducing costs. But some hyperconverged solutions are resistant to change,…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond – Everything You Need to Know
NVMe is an industry standard protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage like flash drives. It unleashes flash arrays from the chains of SCSI that hold it back. Register for our on demand webinar and learn what NVMe and NVMe over…
Hyperconvergence – Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out
One of the attractions of a hyperconverged architecture is when the organization needs more compute or storage resources, it simply adds another node. But hyperconverged vendors seldom talk about the downsides to this approach. There may be times when it…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, NVMe, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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