FormationOne Briefing Note Most data centers are not really out of capacity, they are just out of capacity that they can get to in any meaningful way. Confused? Let me explain. The problem is the capacity is spread across potentially…
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Solving the Problem that SDS Does not
Tagged with: Capacity, CDP, DRaaS, Flash, FormationOne, QOS, Replication, SDS, SSD, VM
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Data Center Modernization Still Needs Shared Storage
Organizations are increasingly embracing technologies like OpenStack and Docker so IT can become more agile, as well as be able to adapt to user or customer demands rapidly and cost effectively. IT’s new found agility, though, requires equal flexibility from…
Open Software Defined Storage needs Data Reduction
Software defined storage (SDS) promises to abstract storage services from storage hardware, freeing organizations from the “lock” of having to use specific storage hardware. But the price for this “freedom” is imprisonment to a single storage software vendor. While certainly…
Tagged with: CEPH, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Gluster, IoT, Permabit, Red Hat, SDS
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Webinar: The Lies that Software Defined Storage Tell
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is one of the most hyped terms in the industry. It is supposed to break vendor lock-in, allowing the use hardware from any vendor. Yet most data centers buy their storage hardware and storage software from…
Open Software Defined Storage takes an Object Storage Step
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Briefing Note Software Defined Storage (SDS) continues to attract the attention of IT professionals, but broad adoption is not meeting the expectations IT professionals. Part of the challenge is that while SDS, in theory, breaks…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consistency, Data Protection, NFS, Object Storage, performance, Red Hat, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Software Defined Storage and Flash
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is nothing new, vendors have been presenting it under different names for years. But SDS really had not taken off, it was hindered by a lack of CPU power and highly latent hard disk performance. The…
Software Defined Data Center for Enterprises
HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, HTBase, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, SDS, Virtualization
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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Software Defined Hyperconvergence
Stratoscale Briefing Note Hyperconverged solutions allow organizations to leverage storage and compute in their data centers shrinking the data center footprint and reducing cost of hardware while optimizing software. Most of these solutions provide some of the elements needed to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, Stratoscale, VMware
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Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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