Keeping unstructured data available, as data sets continue to grow, is a key challenge for today’s data center. The access requirements of unstructured data often preclude relying 100% on capacity centric tape so higher capacity disk solutions, for many organizations,…
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What Is Dispersed Storage?
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Disk array, Dispersed storage, Object Storage, RAID, Storage
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Sepaton v7.0 Product Analysis
Enterprise data centers environments are continuously faced with ever growing volumes of backup data. Many organizations have embraced purposed built backup appliances (PBBAs) utilizing deduplication (dedupe) to help drive operational efficiencies and reduce reliance on tape as a primary backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Oracle, PBBA, Record linkage, Sepaton, Storage
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Cleversafe is An Established Supplier in the Re-emerging Object Storage Market
The explosion of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data Archiving has created use cases where organizations have almost unlimited capacity requirements but still need good retrieval performance. Traditional NAS file storage can’t scale large enough and the deep…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, NetApp, Object Storage, Scalability, Shutterfly, Storage, Unstructured data
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How Big Backup Impacts Deduplication
“Big Backup” is an enterprise challenge where millions (or billions) of files have to be processed each night so they can be safely and cost effectively stored on backup devices. These kinds of backup jobs not only have large numbers…
OCZ SSD Keeps Shining
This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working…
The Big Data Archive
“Big Data” is often thought of as a specialized use case involving machine generated data, typically associated with web search logs, satellite imagery or other sensor data, on which analytics are performed to enable some sort of decision support application.…
High Performance Storage For The Mid-Range
Mid-range data centers have many of the same performance challenges that large enterprises do. As these organizations grow they are virtualizing servers, becoming more reliant on high transaction databases and can have Exchange or Sharepoint performance issues. The problem is…
Tagged with: CASL, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Nimble, Storage, Technology
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What Are IOPS? and why should you care?
In a recent article, “What is I/O and why should you care”, we discussed what input and output (I/O) operations are and how a storage system’s ability to support these I/Os is a finite resource, one that’s arguably as important…
Tagged with: Computer data storage, Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RPM, Solid-state drive, Storage
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What is I/O? – And Why Should You Care?
Recording data to a storage device requires two things, a place to put those bytes and a way to get them written to that device. Capacity is the first thing we think of when talking about a storage system, and…
Tagged with: Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RAID, Storage, Subsystems
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What is Server Based Solid State Caching?
Thanks to virtualization (server and desktop), cloud computing and big data, many environments are adding capacity to their storage infrastructures to meet performance demand. Essentially they are trying to provide the storage system with access to enough hard disk spindles…
Tagged with: Cache, Dell, Hard disk drive, Marvell, NetApp, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Western Digital
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