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What’s the Next Big Thing in Storage After Flash?
Flash storage is fundamentally changing the data center. It is allowing databases to meet the demands of users and virtual infrastructures to achieve new levels of virtual machine (VM) density. But what comes next after flash? Is it another advancement…
Tagged with: Data Mobility, DRAM, Flash, Fragmentation, Primary Data, Virtualization, VM
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Hyperconvergence and the Cloud – Getting There is half the battle
Sureline Systems’ Briefing Note Hyperconvergence and the cloud make similar claims to lure IT professionals to their products and services. Both solutions claim to simplify IT and eliminate the need for technology refreshes. For the most part these claims are…
What is a Cloud First Strategy
Can a data protection company that first released its products in the pre-cloud era claim to adopt a “cloud first” strategy? The proof would be in the proverbial pudding, of course. If a company developing products for IT is putting…
Asigra is Backing up Docker Containers
The first commercial solution designed for backing up containers is here. So the first question is: do you need to back up containers? The answer is really up to you. Whether or not they need backup depends on how you…
Accelerating Reads and Writes with PernixData
Everyone acknowledges that flash storage is faster than spinning disk, and most acknowledge that the closer to the CPU this storage is, the more it accelerates I/O performance. In addition, everyone agrees that the only thing currently faster than flash…
Veeam moves to the Public Cloud: Veeam V9
Veeam has been a leader in the private cloud world for a while now, but in its latest release it set its sights on using the public cloud in the same way their customers have. It is also adding support…
Re-Thinking Scale-Out Storage
Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, performance, Scale-Out, Tintri, VM
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Hyperconverged Flash – Scaling
Scale Computing Briefing Note There are generally three ways one can use flash in a storage system. From a data management perspective, the all-flash array is the easy approach as one does not need to decide what will go on…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Disk, DRaaS, Flash, IOPS, Scale Computing, Tiering, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
NAS vs. Object: Supporting Next Apps
Today’s apps aren’t your father’s apps. Applications developed today take for granted things that were not even thinkable not that long ago — especially in the storage space. The scale that is needed by modern day applications was never envisioned…
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