Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object…
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Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, NAS, NGOSS, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage
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IT Professionals Need A Vendor Neutral Storage Conference
Over the past few years, the large storage vendors like EMC, HP and Oracle have been successful in creating their own well attended events. While these events are valuable, the storage industry and storage IT professionals still need a vendor…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DSI, performance, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Solid State, Storage Architecture
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The Evolution Of Software Defined Storage
Most legacy storage systems consist of a storage device that has three basic parts: the shelves that hold the storage, the CPUs that provide the array with storage services and the network interfaces that allow the storage system to be…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Flash, HCS, HDD, Hyper Converged Storage, RAM, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Software Defined Storage – Podcast
Hyper-converged storage is true Software-defined Storage (SDS), since by migrating storage intelligence to the hypervisor it’s completely hardware agnostic. But there’s still room for improvement. In this podcast, we look at how SDS is evolving and how it can continue…
Tagged with: Atlantis ILIO, Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Flash, Flash memory, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Podcast – How Will You Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl
In this podcast we discuss Storage Hardware Sprawl. Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on.…
Tagged with: Computer data storage, Data Center Sprawl, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Hardware Sprawl
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Three Ways To Improve Software Defined Storage
Hyper-converged Storage may be the purest form of the software defined storage (SDS) concept, as it runs storage services as a virtual machine within the customer infrastructure. This new take on storage architectures collapses the traditional compute, storage and networking…
Tagged with: Architecture, Atlantis, Hyper-converged, ILIO, In-memory, Optimize, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine
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IBM’s Storage Business Is Not Doomed
The news a couple of weeks ago that IBM had sold its server business to Lenovo set off a flurry of speculation about what IBM would do with the rest of its hardware offerings. While no one outside of IBM…
Tagged with: Commoditization, Flash, IBM, Memory, Non-volatile memory, Software Defined Storage
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What’s The Difference Between Tiering And Caching?
Flash storage continues to be the “go to” option for IT professionals looking to solve performance problems, but these infrastructure designers are struggling with how to best implement flash. Automated tiering and caching are becoming common answers to that question.…
Tagged with: Caching, Flash, Hard disk, MLC, SLC, Software Defined Storage, Tiering, Write-back, Write-through
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How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?
One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for delivering basic functions like concatenating disks into volumes, RAID data protection…
Tagged with: controller architecture, Data center, Hardware, RAID, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Storage
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On-Demand Panel Discussion – Storage Predictions and Planning 2014
2014 will be a year unlike any other for IT Planners. The pressure to meet the performance demands of an increasingly dense virtual infrastructure and even more transaction-heavy databases is higher than ever. Add to that the out-of-control growth of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Computer data storage, Data deduplication, Flash, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Storage
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