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Are you ready for software-defined storage?
The software-defined data center is one of the technology trends that’s kicking the industry into its next evolutionary stage. It's rife with innovation and has the potential to dramatically increase...
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3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #1 Cloud computing
Do you have an IT job involving enterprise data? More importantly, do you want to keep it? If you answered “Yes” to both questions, you’ll want to make sure you’re fully prepared for three big shifts...
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3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #2 Software-defined data center
Image: JD Hancock (cc:by) Do you have an IT job involving enterprise data? More importantly, do you want to keep it? If you answered “Yes” to both questions, you’ll want to make sure you’re fully...
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3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #3 Flash
Image: JD Hancock (cc:by) The start of this series covered two trends that are having a huge impact on IT: The mega-shifts to cloud computing and to the software-defined data center. Make sure you’re...
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Designing cloud storage? Ditch the LUN!
Image: Mad cherub (cc:by) I'm always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. To read this article in full...
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A better way to design cloud storage: Learn from mainframes
Image: Dave Winer (cc:by-sa) What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out... In my previous post,...
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Is tiered storage obsolete? Yes and no!
Image: Barney Livingston (cc:by-sa) Traditionally, discussions about enterprise storage economics revolved around the concept of a multi-tiered model. In reality, this often had more to do with vendor...
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When it comes to storage, cache is king
“Tape is Dead, Disk is Tape, Flash is Disk, RAM Locality is King.” So said the late Jim Gray of Microsoft Research, in 2006. While tape never really died, a new wave of vendors have picked-up his...
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Speedy storage: Pros and cons of SSDs and flash
Image: "Speedy vs. Kid Flash" by JD Hancock (cc:by) Enterprise storage architects have developed many ways to increase application performance by implementing flash memory. This has raised the bar for...
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2013 in review: Enterprise flash storage goes mainstream
Image: christmasstockimages.com (cc:by) 2013 is the year that flash became “standard equipment” for mainstream storage arrays. As the year comes to a close, it’s hard to envision a new...
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2013 in review: Big data, bigger expectations?
Image: Olga Tarkovskiy (cc:by-sa) It’s fair to say that big data has experienced more than its share of hype over the past year. According to Gartner’s 2013 Hype Cycle for Storage Technologies, big...
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2013 in review: 'Cloud' is now normal. And so the real work begins!
Image: Peter Dutton (cc:by) Cloud has proven to be a sticky marketing term, even (especially?) among non-technical consumers. In 2013, the average consumer began to understand just what the cloud was...
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Software robots are taking over the data center!
Image: Jeff Sandquist (cc:by) By now, you’re probably familiar with IT’s new business mindset: that of a highly efficient service provider. Cloud services, consumerization and BYOD are just a few of...
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Redefining mission-critical storage tiers
Image: John Manoogian III (cc:by-sa) The traditional model of tiered storage is broken. “Fast and expensive vs. slow and cheap” doesn’t match how people actually use storage. But there is a better...
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The future of storage is software-defined
Image: Chris Dagdigian (cc:by) The Storage Networking Industry Association recently hosted an industry summit, “The Future of Computing – The Convergence of Memory and Storage through Non-Volatile...
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Storage predictions: 5 things that WON'T happen in 2014
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Software robots are taking over the data center!
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Are you ready for software-defined storage?
The software-defined data center is one of the technology trends that’s kicking the industry into its next evolutionary stage. It's rife with innovation and has the potential to dramatically increase...
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3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #1 Cloud computing
Do you have an IT job involving enterprise data? More importantly, do you want to keep it? If you answered “Yes” to both questions, you’ll want to make sure you’re fully prepared for three big shifts...
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3 things you need to know to save your IT job: #2 Software-defined data center
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