Use Next-Generation Hybrid to Overcome the Flash Shortage
While most experts expect it to prolong well into 2022, IT professionals can use next-generation hybrid to overcome the flash shortage the industry is experiencing. The perfect storm of COVID shutdowns and increased demand are causing the flash shortage. As a result, the logic of…
Four Steps to Beating Ransomware
The recent hack and subsequent ransomware attack experienced by Colonial Pipeline underscores the shortcomings with most organizations’ storage technology which prevents them from taking the four steps to beating ransomware. The risk organizations, enterprises and even nations face when dealing with this malware threatens more than just that company’s profits and reputation. Bad actors work…
Minimize the TCO of Cloud Storage
While a low starting price seems like a great way to minimize the TCO of cloud storage, the total cost of using the cloud will increase dramatically if the storage software does not efficiently use cloud resources. The problem is that once you realize just how much cloud storage is going to cost you, the…
How to Best Use Azure Cloud
Organizations looking at how to best use Azure Cloud to address challenges with their existing on-premises architectures have often found current solutions lacking robust data protection and having a very high total cost of ownership (TCO). The cloud is merely infrastructure for rent. It by itself can’t solve problems. Using cloud infrastructures like the one…
The Cloud Storage TCO Problem
Legacy storage systems are moving their obsolete, inefficient code into the new frontier of cloud infrastructure and they are creating the Cloud Storage TCO problem. The complexity of understanding the total cost of ownership (TCO) in the cloud makes it difficult for providers to convince customers to move applications and data to their infrastructures, let…
A Platform Approach to Storage
While most vendors take a “systems” approach to storage, StorONE takes a platform approach to storage. What is the difference? Only a platform approach enables you to benefit from the minimal total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximum data protection while still meeting a broad range of capacity and use case needs. What is a…
Storage Snapshots Too Limited
The inability to take snapshots frequently, retain those snapshots indefinitely and store those snapshots cost-effectively means that legacy storage snapshots are too limited for IT professionals trying to solve real data management problems. Whether they are copy on write (COW) or even the more modern redirect on write (ROW), both techniques impact performance and don’t…
High Availability vs. Budget Availability
For many organizations high-availability is non-negotiable, for others it is a battle between high availability vs. budget availability. If resources and budgets were no object, all storage would be replicated synchronously across multiple nodes, then geographically across data centers, and even include replication to the cloud. If you have mission critical data, StorONE offers and…
Write-Caches Are Unnecessary
If storage software can take advantage of the high-performance flash media available today, then write-caches are unnecessary. The majority of storage systems today use DRAM to create a write-cache to improve their performance and hide the inefficiency of their storage software. The reality is that a write-cache, instead of increasing performance, adds complexity and increased…
Validating Powering VMware with Optane
The StorONE S1:All-Flash Array.next (AFAn) initial focus excels in high-performance database environments, but now we are validating powering VMware with Optane. StorageReview recently put an S1:AFA.next through its paces in a VMware environment and came away with impressive results. Join StorONE and StorageReview for a live webinar this Thursday as they discuss how to best…