Next generation all-flash arrays (AFA) face a serious problem; they will provide more capacity than most data centers need. While too much capacity doesn’t sound like a problem it will be because organizations are still going to pay for it.…
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Achieving Cloud Efficiency Without Cloud Scale
Our last blog, “Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient“, discussed how cloud providers, from a resources perspective, aren’t really any more efficient than the typical data center. The provider’s use of automation and their scale is what separates them from the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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SlideShare: Data Center vs. Cloud: Advantages of On-Premise Storage
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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Webinar: How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for less than $95,000!
All-Flash Arrays are the model of inefficiency and as flash media increases in density and performance, the cost of this inefficiency becomes more obvious. Enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) deliver 70,000 IOPS per drive but most AFAs need 24 drives or…
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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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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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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Webinar: Five Steps To Lowering Your Storage Costs Without Sacrificing Performance
Storage today, especially high performance production storage, costs too much. The cost of production storage forces customers to make compromises with their data so that the purchase will fit into their budget. The cost problem defies reality. Storage, both in…
Tagged with: Capacity, HDD, NVMe, performance, ROIQ, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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SlideShare: SDS is Broken – And How to Fix it
Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to take the data center by storm, sweeping IT professionals off their feet on the way to storage management bliss. But, most SDS projects are never actually started or abandoned long before they reach…
Tagged with: HDD, NVMe, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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