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Does NVMe Flash Have to Mean Featureless Flash?

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

The primary goal of the NVMe standard is to reduce latency. It accomplishes this by leveraging the PCIe interface and increasing both command counts and queue depth. NVMe Flash Systems however, are more than just the flash media. Vendors create…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, FC, Flash, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, SAS, Snapshot, Western Digital
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Enterprise HCI Requires Enterprise Data Protection – HYCU 3.5 Briefing Note

Posted on January 9, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Nutanix are improving their ability to support enterprise applications like SAP-HANA. The broader the application and workload that an HCI solution can support, the better the return on investment and the more it lives up…

Tagged with: Archive, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Nutanix, Replication, Snapshot
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Is Your All-Flash Storage Software Block Only?

Posted on December 20, 2018 by George Crump

Accelerating database performance remains a top use case for all-flash arrays, so it makes sense that most all-flash array systems only support block storage. However, only supporting block means that the customer assigns the “raw” volume to a server and…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Does Your All-Flash Array Support Hard Disk Drives?

Posted on December 6, 2018 by George Crump

Technically, if an All-Flash Array (AFA) supports hard disk drives, it is no longer an AFA. What if however, the system could start as an AFA and then later, to save costs, move older data to inexpensive, high capacity hard…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Does Your All-Flash Software Provide Data Protection?

Posted on November 29, 2018 by George Crump

Most primary storage systems and software provide some form of data protection. That protection comes in the form of protection from media failure (typically RAID), snapshots and clones. All-Flash Arrays (AFA) seem to provide a better than average level of…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, NAS, NVMe, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Understanding the AWS Data Protection Market – Cloud Daddy Briefing Note

Posted on October 30, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations should keep a backup of applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unlike on-premises applications where the primary concern is disaster recovery, the primary motivation for protecting cloud-native applications is recovery from cyber-attacks, rogue users or application faults. Each…

Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Treat, dr, Replication, Retention, Snapshot, Snapshots
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Navigating the Performance Marketing Hype for True Flash Value

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Krista Macomber

For years, the storage industry has hailed the advent of the all-flash data center. With growing pressure from lines of business to obtain more sophisticated and real-time analytics for competitive advantage, with declining price points and increasing density of solid-state…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Big data, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Scale, Snapshot, SSD, Thin provisioning, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
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HYCU for Google Cloud Platform

Posted on October 19, 2018 by George Crump

HYCU for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a native Google Cloud service designed to protect applications running in the Google Cloud. The software is available directly from the Google Marketplace. Instead of developing its own mechanisms for protecting data, HYCU…

Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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Is All-Flash Deduplication a Must Have?

Posted on October 17, 2018 by George Crump

In the early days of All-Flash Arrays (AFA) deduplication was a key catalyst for adoption. Server and Desktop virtualization environments benefited greatly from the technology because of the similarity between virtual machine images. The environments also didn’t have the same…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, NAS, NVMe, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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Can Storage Software Reduce the Cost of an All-Flash Array

Posted on October 15, 2018 by George Crump

Generally speaking, most All-Flash Arrays (AFA) increase performance by adding more processing power, more RAM and more drives. Adding more of any of these components also adds more cost. The only significant cost reduction method that most storage software solutions…