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SlideShare: NAS vs. Object Storage: 10 Reasons Why Object Storage Will Win

Posted on March 18, 2016 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and file servers were the foundation of collaboration in the 90’s. These storage systems primarily served the needs of users that needed to share files for projects. In the 2000’s NAS systems found a lease…

Tagged with: Caringo, File server, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare

Making Storage Aware of VMware

Posted on March 18, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Briefing Note: Tintri VMstore Since the advent of VMware and other virtualization products, storage has been an issue. First, the challenge is having to use traditional shared storage devices with hypervisors. Traditional LUNs are too difficult to create, grow, and…

Tagged with: Flash, Hypervisor, NFS, SMB, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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New Paper: The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?

Posted on February 25, 2016 by George Crump

With the move to virtualization well underway, the data center faces its most pivotal technology refresh in its history. The current architecture was designed before the introduction of virtualization, but virtualization has been adopted into that legacy architecture at an…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-convergence, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Is the Three-Tier Architecture needed?

Posted on February 17, 2016 by George Crump

The traditional three-tier architecture – compute, networking and storage – has served IT well for decades. It was born in an era where the availability of these resources were in short supply and the cost to acquire them was very…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: NAS vs. Object Storage: 10 Reasons Why Object Storage Will Win

Posted on February 11, 2016 by George Crump

Tagged with: Caringo, File server, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar

ChalkTalk Video: Improving Time to Value for Enterprise Big Data Analytics

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain how to reduce time and avoid complexity of do-it-yourself analytics projects with the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP). Purpose-built by HDS for fast-growing data analytics workloads, HSP…

Tagged with: Big data, HDS, Hitachi, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, Virtualization
Posted in Video

ChalkTalk Video: What is a Data Lake

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain the term “Data Lake”, and what it means for today’s analytics tools such as Pentaho, Hadoop, and Cassandra. The discussion includes real-world use cases, and also demonstrates…

Tagged with: Data Lake, HDS, Hitachi, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, Virtualization
Posted in Video

Addressing VDI’s Fork in The Road

Posted on February 4, 2016 by George Crump

Organizations embark on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects to drive down end-user operational costs and to enhance infrastructure security. These projects often evaluate well. During “test mode” there are a limited number of users, making it easy to meet their…

Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Caching, Cloudistics, Hard disk, I/O, NAS, Performance Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization
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StorageShort: Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes

Posted on January 8, 2016 by George Crump

What is Your Rake Moment? There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a…

Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in StorageShort