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Coraid – A Storage Company Without an Exit Strategy
Tagged with: AoE, ATA, Coraid, FMS2017, Hypervisor, LUN, Replication, SCSI, Snapshot, Virtualization, VLAN
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Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note
Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, FMS2017, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Snapshot, Software Defined
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What’s Next in All-Flash?
All-Flash Arrays, once thought of as the storage system for certain high performance use cases, are now the mainstream primary storage system. The best proof point of all-flash dominance comes from vendors that sell hard disk, hybrid (flash and hard…
End-to-End Data Management – Primary Data Briefing Note
The objective of data management is to make sure the right data is on the right type of storage at the right time. The problem is most vendors are too myopic in their treatment of the process. Vendors either focus…
Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?
The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Dealing With Storage Scale in Docker Environments – Project Longhorn Briefing Note
Scale-out storage provides data centers the ability to create infrastructures that can scale to meet the capacity demands of hyper-scale environments. Flash provides data centers the ability to meet the performance demands of the hyper-scale environments. The missing link is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, CPU, Flash, Hyperconverged, KVM, Project Longhorn, Scale, Snapshot, VMware
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Programmable Storage Without The Programming
As data centers scale, the ability to automate routine tasks enables this growth to occur without requiring additional staff. The problem is most automation requires learning a programming or scripting language which most IT professionals don’t have the time to…
Tagged with: File Virtualization, Migration, MSP, Nexenta, SDS, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Is it Time to Retire Your NAS?
It’s time to retire Network Attached Storage (NAS) – at least as we know it. These systems, glorified file servers, are over two decades old. In that time, users have become more mobile, and organizations more diverse. What seemed like…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Data Center Modernization Needs a Fabric – MapR-XD Briefing Note
There are four storage trends driving data center modernization. These trends are enabling storage architectures that are both dense and have massive scale, while also providing rapid response to applications and analytics. At the same time organizations are global and…
What is Open Converged Infrastructure?
Converged infrastructure (CI) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) are common terms, but open converged infrastructure (OCI) is new. What is it and how is it different from the other architectures? This article will start with an examination of the similarities and…
Tagged with: Compression, Converged, Datrium, Encryption, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, LUN, Open Converged, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization
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