Driving down the cost of NAS is a top priority because these systems continue to require increasing amounts of capacity and need to meet new performance challenges. The increase in demand stems from the organization’s need to support more and…
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Managing QLC to Make it Enterprise Class
At StorONE we recently launched the All-Flash Array.next. While our use of Optane gets all the headlines, how we manage QLC is a real technical achievement that can benefit data centers of all sizes. QLC offers enterprises excellent read performance,…
Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Can The Storage Infrastructure Keep Pace with Data Center Modernization?
The modern data center is increasingly microservice or container-based. These workloads are dynamic and unpredictable. The datasets within these workloads range from thousands of large files to billions of small files. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are being…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, EXTEN, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, SSD
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Lightboard Video: Why is NOW the Time for SDS?
As a term, software-defined storage (SDS) has been around for over a decade. The concept of abstracting storage software from the storage hardware is even older, predating Y2K. Despite its time on the market and many apparent advantages, SDS adoption…
Understanding the IO Needs of Edge Computing
Edge computing architectures typically consists of an array of IoT sensors that are collecting data in realtime which then send data to an edge data center for additional processing. Eventually, much of the collected data ends up in a public…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell PowerEdge, DRAM, Edge Computing, HDD, IOPS, IoT, Kingston Technology, Latency, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, SATA, SSD
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Solving the Media and Advertising Firm Storage Challenge
Many media and advertising firms require multi-site collaboration and external file sharing. Like most industries, these firms are also facing unprecedented data growth both within their core data center and at the edge. They, like the larger media and entertainment…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CTERA, Data Retention, dr, Edge Filer, HDD, NAS, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, SSD
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Lightboard Video: SSDs Are Critical for Edge Computing Success
The escalating use of IoT devices, as well as the need for Cloud providers and Content Delivery Network providers to get closer to where their customers are, is driving edge computing. The goal of edge computing is to reduce latency…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 2 Wrap Up
The second day of Flash Memory Summit (FMS) was another busy one for Storage Switzerland, including presenting with Jay Kramer, an FMS founder and CEO of Network Storage Advisors. (Briefing 1 and 2 are available in our post “Flash Memory…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 Day 2 – Western Digital
Our second day at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019 was another jam-packed day. Western Digital’s activities before and at the event are so extensive that we’ve broken them out into a full detailed briefing note on their IntelliFlash products and…
Tagged with: AI, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SDS, SSD, Western Digital
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