Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…
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Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply
Tagged with: Data Protection, Latency, Primary Data, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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Enterprise Container Storage
StorageOS Briefing Note Docker and container technology is experiencing rapid adoption by DevOps teams. But its move into the production data center is hindered by the lack of stateful, durable, highly available storage solutions. What are Containers? DevOps is an…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, HA, Replication, Snapshot, StorageOS, Virtualization
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Remote IT is Moving to the Top of the IT Whiteboard
Riverbed Briefing Note Most of the focus in the enterprise is on the data center, but in reality most of the action is in the remote office/branch office (ROBO). ROBO is the new normal for most organizations. It allows them…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Data Fragmentation, dr, Hyperconverged, Riverbed, ROBO, Virtualization, WAN
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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough
Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
Hyperconvergence has seen significant uptake in the last two years, driven by its simplification of IT infrastructure. It reduces the need to manage discrete devices or have specialized training in component-level technology, such as storage area networks (SANs); makes operations…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, WAN
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Break Vendor Lock-in with Data Virtualization
For quite some time now, organizations have struggled to keep up with explosive data growth that continues to grow exponentially each year. In addition to the never ending demand for faster application response times, most data now needs to be…
Tagged with: Capacity, Metadata, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters – DriveScale Briefing Note
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
Tagged with: Capacity, DriveScale, JBODS, performance, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Curing Storage Blindness
As modern organizations struggle to keep up with the ever-growing data deluge, they have been forced to deploy and overprovision different types of storage in order to meet their Service Level Agreements (SLA), leading to unprecedented storage sprawl. Storage consolidation…
Tagged with: Flash, Fragmentation, NAS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLA, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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What does your data need?
Have you ever needed to get somewhere really quickly? Consider the things that go through your mind. This parallels how storage management is typically done in today’s data centers. But we could do better. For example, what if you lived…
