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SlideShare: Data Center vs. Cloud: Advantages of On-Premise Storage
Tagged with: Public Cloud, ROI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Posted in Slideshare
ChalkTalk Video: On-Premises All-Flash as a Service
One of the advantages of the cloud is organization’s can start a new project with minimal capital outlay. The problem is that as that project matures and moves into production the cost and ability to control the cloud become issues.…
Tagged with: Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE, VMworld2018
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Posted in Video
Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient?
Cloud providers are sometimes held up as models of efficiency but are they really? Or, do cloud providers just hide inefficiency better? Cloud providers invest much of their resources in automation, so that functions within their data centers happen transparently…
Tagged with: Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Posted in Blog
The Architectures behind Cloud Storage
Each of the major cloud providers deliver at least three different types of cloud storage; high performance, archive and cold storage. Each of these storage types share the pay-as-you-go cloud expectation but each differ in terms of cost and performance.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, NFS, Object Storage, ROI, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, StorONE
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Webinar: How To Make Data Center Storage Better Than The Cloud
A compelling reason to move applications to the cloud is how easy providers make storage management. To the users, cloud storage seems frictionless. They just “order-up” the capacity and performance they need, and the cloud gives it to them. Behind…
Tagged with: Public Cloud, ROI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Posted in Webinar
Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem – Elastifile Briefing Note
Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Migration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage
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Posted in Briefing Note
Is Now The Time for Software Defined Storage – SUSE Briefing Note
Storage remains the thorn in the side of IT as it attempts to meet the expectations of the organization. According to a study commissioned by SUSE, 70% of IT departments say their current storage strategies are not keeping up with…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, performance, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SUSE, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
Why are SDS Vendors Becoming Hardware Vendors?
Things used to be simpler. There were monolithic storage vendors using proprietary hardware and there were software defined storage (SDS) vendors selling software that you could run on your favorite Intel machine. But the SDS wave sent a clear signal…
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…
ChalkTalk Video: Software Defined Storage has to do More
The first phase of software defined storage (SDS) is bringing many benefits to the data center. Its abstraction of storage software from the storage hardware enables organizations to manage all their storage assets from a single view, along with a…
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