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Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016

Posted on December 29, 2015 by George Crump

In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…

Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Next Generation, SDS, Software Defined
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ChalkTalk Video: Maximizing the Potential of NVDIMM Storage Class Memory with Software Defined Memory

Posted on December 15, 2015 by George Crump

Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…

Tagged with: Convergence, Flash, Next Generation, NVDIMM, Plexistor, Software Defined
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Portfolio Analysis: DDN Delivers a Powerful Portfolio for the Data Intensive Enterprise

Posted on September 24, 2015 by George Crump

General Motors and General Electric, both in business for over a century, now employ more IT professionals than most IT vendors. Both companies have described themselves as software firms. At the heart of any IT company is data and most…

Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, Flash, Hard disk, HPC, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, NAS, Software Defined, SSD, WOS
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Addressing the Docker to Production Storage Challenge

Posted on August 28, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…

Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Integration, Shared Storage, Software Defined, VM
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Unifying Data Protection with Software-Defined Storage

Posted on July 30, 2015 by George Crump

One of the promises of software-defined storage (SDS) is the unification of storage services and the management of those services. The result should be a reduction in the cost to provision and manage storage resources. But some SDS solutions can…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, FalconStor, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined
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Hadoop Storage: DAS vs. Shared

Posted on July 23, 2015 by George Crump

As Hadoop scales and the data center begins to count on it, the extra expense required to maintain DAS performance, reliability and scalability often end up being more expensive than the shared storage alternative. In this article we discuss how the multi-faceted capabilities of a scale-out, distributed storage software end up being less expensive than DAS.

Tagged with: CIFS, DAS, Hedvig, Metadata, NFS, Shared Storage, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Why buy a Backup Appliance from a Disk Drive Vendor?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

Seagate CSS (Cloud Systems and Solutions), a division of this long-time disk drive manufacturer, was put together to develop storage infrastructure solutions for the hyper-scale cloud provider and OEM markets, among others. More than just a component manufacturer ‘moving up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Hybrid, Hyper-scale, PBBA, Replication, Seagate, SMB, Software Defined
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Software Defined Deduplication for the Cloud

Posted on May 29, 2015 by George Crump

Unlike cloud compute which can scale up and down on the fly, cloud storage is more permanent. While organizations that use cloud storage only pay for the exact storage they are consuming, they do also pay for that storage month…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Efficiency, Permabit, Scale, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Rovius provides the Mobility to realize Virtual Platform and Cloud Freedom

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Eric Slack

With the move towards software-defined infrastructures and commodity-based hardware, companies are getting used to freedom and flexibility in IT. They also expect that freedom in the cloud, including the ability to move between platforms, clouds and hypervisors easily as they…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Hypervisor, Protection, Rovius, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: X-IO Enters March like a Lion – No Lamb in sight

Posted on March 13, 2015 by George Crump

The storage market is as competitive as ever, so vendors need to keep delivering the features that data centers require to meet the ever-increasing demands for performance and capacity. But through the feature war, IT professionals would be wise to…