Items Tagged: Block+Storage
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The value and benefits of IP SANs are clear and unchallenged. IP SANs leverage already ubiquitous Ethernet technology as the transport for delivering storage networking to a wider class of companies and applications than previously economically possible. As a result, companies without dedicated storage administrators or expensive Fibre Channel infrastructure have a viable alternative to direct attached storage.
LeftHand Networks
The Small Medium Enterprise (SME) market is on the cusp of a significant storage infrastructure upgrade cycle. The current local and direct attach disk paradigm cannot persist indefinitely. Many of these SME firms are grappling with the same infrastructure challenges, such as data protection, disaster recovery planning, regulatory compliance, and consolidation that have buffeted the Global 2000 enterprises over the past five years. Yet, they are finding that the solutions used by those enterprises are too complex and costly for them to deploy.
DataDirect Networks (DDN) Delivers Highest Big Data Performance With SFA10K-X, World's Fastest....
Award-Winning DDN Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) Technology Embeds Applications and File Systems While Optimizing Bandwidth, IOPS and Capacity Utilization for Cloud and Content
- Premiered: 09/20/11
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: MarketWire.com
DataDirect Networks debuts SFA10K-X, its integrated block and file storage appliance
DataDirect Networks (DDN), an information storage company, unveiled this week Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) 10K-X, an integrated storage appliance that maximizes application performance while minimizing total cost of ownership for Big Data, cloud, and content-intensive environments.
- Premiered: 09/23/11
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Computer Technology Review
How the future of data storage will stack up
The future of data storage will have storage shedding the role of a passive technology player as it integrates more closely with applications and workloads.
- Premiered: 10/31/13
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
When and how to implement an object storage platform
When deciding whether to implement an object storage platform into your environment, it makes sense to first outline what kind of data you're storing and how it's typically used.
- Premiered: 02/04/14
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Tech Target: Search Cloud Storage
AWS storage doesn't have to be a complex undertaking, experts say
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of storage options, but choosing between them doesn't have to be a complex undertaking.
- Premiered: 03/20/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Cloud Applications
EMC upgrades Isilon NAS for file storage, Hadoop analytics
EMC today launched two new Isilon scale-out network-attached storage arrays and added the ability to use flash as a read cache for all Isilon systems.
- Premiered: 07/08/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
A First Look at the HP StoreServ Management Console
Recently, I had a chance to spend some time working with the new HP StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) that was unveiled at the HP Discover EMEA show on Dec. 2, 2014. SSMC is the interface to its unified (file and block) storage solution.
- Premiered: 12/15/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Virtualization Review
New approaches to scalable storage
With all these scalable storage approaches, IT organizations must evaluate the options against their data storage and analytics needs, as well as future architectures.
- Premiered: 03/16/15
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: TechTarget: Search Data Center
Infinidat comes out of stealth with PB-scale InfiniBox, funding grab
Moshe Yanai's newest venture launches its InfiniBox hyperscale storage array and says it already has close to 100 customers.
- Premiered: 04/29/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
Load DynamiX adds workload modeling to storage performance tool
The Load DynamiX update adds built-in workload models to support OpenStack, Ceph, Amazon S3, NFSv 4.1 and steady-state VDI.
- Premiered: 05/22/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
Integrate cloud tiering with on-premises storage
Cloud and on-premises storage are increasingly becoming integrated so cloud is just another tier available to storage administrators.
- Premiered: 06/02/15
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: TechTarget: Search Cloud Storage
Hyperconverged storage challenges the SAN paradigm
HCI makes local storage cool again -- and it keeps pace with how VMs access and store data better than some traditional storage architectures.
- Premiered: 06/16/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Data Center
Diablo Technologies launches new DDR4 Memory1 module
Diablo Technologies introduces the all-flash Memory1 DDR4 module, and claims lower-cost, higher-capacity flash can replace expensive DRAM.
- Premiered: 08/05/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Solid State Storage
INFINIDAT Expands InfiniBox Enterprise Storage Family, Introduces Multi-Petabyte Scale Unified
INFINIDAT, a leader in high performance, highly available enterprise storage solutions, announces the expansion of its revolutionary InfiniBox family of storage arrays with the addition of two new capabilities and a new midrange model.
- Premiered: 09/21/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Business Wire
Container technology's role in storage
Containers are somewhat limited in scope and scale so the next logical step for the technology is dealing with storage.
- Premiered: 10/20/15
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: TechTarget: Search Server Virtualization
What's the future of data storage in 2016?
Mike Matchett takes a closer look at the future of data storage technology in 2016 based on research from the Taneja Group.
- Premiered: 01/06/16
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: TechTarget: Search Storage
Nutanix XCP For Demanding Enterprise Workloads: Making Infrastructure Invisible for Tier-1 Ent. Apps
Virtualization has matured and become widely adopted in the enterprise market. Approximately three in every five physical servers are deployed in a virtualized environment. After two waves of virtualization, it is safe to assume that a high percentage of business applications are running in virtualized environments. The applications last to deploy into the virtualized environment were considered the tier-1 apps. Examples of these include CRM and ERP environments running SAP NetWeaver, Oracle database and applications, and Microsoft SQL Server. In many 24X7 service industries, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint are also considered tier-1 applications.
The initial approach to building virtualized environments that can handle these tier-1 applications was to build highly tuned infrastructure using best of breed three-tier architectures where compute, storage and networking were selected and customized for each type of workload. Newer shared storage systems have increasingly adopted virtualized all flash and hybrid architectures, which has allowed organizations to mix a few tier-1 workloads within the same traditional infrastructure and still meet stringent SLA requirements.
Enter now the new product category of enterprise-capable HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI). With HCI, the traditional three-tier architecture has been collapsed into a single software-based system that is purpose-built for virtualization. In these solutions, the hypervisor, compute, storage, and advanced data services are integrated into an x86 industry-standard building block. These modern scale-out hyperconverged systems combine a flash-first software-defined storage architecture with VM-centric ease-of-use that far exceeds any three-tier approach on the market today. These attributes have made HCI very popular and one of the fastest growing product segments in the market today.
HCI products have been very popular with medium sized companies and specific workloads such as VDI or test and development. After a few years of hardening and maturity, are these products ready to tackle enterprise tier-1 applications? In this paper we will take a closer look at Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) and explore how its capabilities stack up to tier-1 application workload requirements.
Nutanix was a pioneer in HCI and is widely considered the market and visionary leader of this rapidly growing segment. Nutanix has recently announced the next step - a vision of the product beyond HCI. With this concept they plan to make the entire virtualized infrastructure invisible to IT consumers. This will encompass all three of the popular hypervisors: VMware, Hyper-V and their own Acropolis Hypervisor. Nutanix has enabled app mobility between different hypervisors, a unique concept across the converged system and HCI alike. This Solution Profile will focus on the Nutanix XCP platform and key capabilities that make it suitable for teir-1 enterprise applications. With the most recent release, we have found compelling features appropriate for most tier-1 application workloads. Combined with the value proposition of web-scale modular architecture this provides an easy pathway to data-center transformation that businesses of all sizes should take advantage of.
Amazon EFS stuck in beta, lacks native Windows support
Amazon's long-awaited Elastic File System is expected to hit the market soon, but it won't natively support Windows or high-performance workloads.
- Premiered: 02/01/16
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search AWS