Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead…
Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
Most IT professionals think of cloud storage as storage at the end of an internet connection that, because of the inherent latency, is for data that doesn’t need instant access. As a result, IT uses it mostly for backup, archive…
It is a well known fact that unstructured data is growing. But there is an aspect of its growth that may take unsuspecting IT professionals off guard; the number of individual files storage systems need to store today and the…
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…
Today’s apps aren’t your father’s apps. Applications developed today take for granted things that were not even thinkable not that long ago — especially in the storage space. The scale that is needed by modern day applications was never envisioned…
Some systems are born with high availability, others have it thrust upon them. This seems to be the case when discussing the High Availability (HA) features of traditional NAS systems vs those of object storage systems. HA refers to the…
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) separates the storage software from the storage hardware. The result should be a model that allows organizations to buy storage hardware systems from multiple vendors that address specific use cases but have the ability to operate, not…
Modern organizations today, regardless of size, are faced with many laws and government regulations that require them to maintain control and security of their data as well as properly protecting that data. At the same time, they have to meet…
Briefing Note: Tintri VMstore Since the advent of VMware and other virtualization products, storage has been an issue. First, the challenge is having to use traditional shared storage devices with hypervisors. Traditional LUNs are too difficult to create, grow, and…
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