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Storage & Virtual Containers: Where Does The Data Go?

The IT industry is renowned for chasing the tail of the “next big thing” when it comes to technology. The current favorite du jour is containerization, with Docker leading the charge with its...

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What Software-Defined Storage Really Is

Buzzwords come and go in this industry and one particular bête noire of mine has been term “software-defined storage” or SDS. It’s not that I’m particularly against the idea of storage delivered from...

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Storage Evolution Produces Countless Options

There was a time when buying a storage array meant comparing products from one of the big four or five vendors and having to decide whether to go “enterprise” with something like Symmetrix or...

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3D NAND: The Hard Disk Drive Killer

For as long as most people can remember, the go-to media for storing data persistently has been the humble hard drive. Originally invented by IBM and released in 1956, the hard disk drive is about to...

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Overcoming Cloud Storage Challenges

As a use case, backup is probably the most obvious way to consume cloud storage. The nature of backup -- sequential access, less of a focus on performance, infrequent read access, not latency sensitive...

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Object Storage Comes Of Age

As a concept, object-based storage systems appear to be the closest to a pure data storage device as you could imagine. Instead of being constrained by artificial constructs like LUNs and file systems,...

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Scaling Data Backup Beyond Data Protection

Probably the most unloved yet arguably most important part of infrastructure management is backup, or to be more precise, data protection. Look back at the mainframe days of the 80s and 90s and you’ll...

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Docker Containers And Persistent Storage: 4 Options

Part of the benefit of containers is their temporary or transient nature. A container can be spun up in seconds, used just as long as necessary and then terminated with the minimum overhead on system...

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Docker Containers: What Makes Them So Portable?

One of the main benefits in using Docker and container technology is the portability of applications. It’s possible to spin up an application on-site or in a public cloud environment in a matter of...

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Using Containers For Persistent Storage

In my previous blog, I discussed how persistent storage is needed to ensure that data continues to exist after a container terminates. This persistent storage is expected to sit on a traditional...

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Docker Data Security Complications

More on Infrastructure Live at Interop ITX Docker containers provide a real sea change in the way applications are written, distributed and deployed. The aim of containers is to be flexible and allow...

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How Spectre and Meltdown Impact Data Center Storage

IT news over the last few weeks has been dominated by stories of vulnerabilities found in Intel x86 chips and almost all modern processors. The two exposures, Spectre and Meltdown, are a result of the...

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The Evolution of Object Storage

It’s a truism that the amount of data created every year continues to grow at exponential rates. Almost every business now dependends on technology and the information those businesses generate has...

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The NVMe Transition

The buzzword of the moment in the storage industry is NVMe, otherwise known as Non-Volatile Memory Express. NVMe is a new storage protocol that vastly improves the performance of NAND flash and storage...

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