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…
4 CFO Storage Purchasing Tips
CFOs do not buy storage every day, so we decided to provide 4 CFO storage purchasing tips to help them, and other IT buyers, make the proper selections for their organizations. These tips are essential and timely because storage vendors are pushing their potential customers to make heavily-pressured, end-of-the-quarter storage purchases. These, sudden special offers…
Storage Software Limitations
IT is not able to benefit fully from storage hardware innovations because of storage software limitations. All storage systems are software powering hardware to create the storage infrastructure. The problem is storage software is not keeping pace with a decade of incredible hardware innovations like a 20X increase in per drive performance and a 4X…
End of Life for All-Flash Arrays
Even though they currently dominate the market, the end of life for all-flash arrays (AFA) is coming sooner than you think. Let’s be clear AFAs are, in reality, single media storage systems that happen to only support flash. And in most cases, just one type of flash media. What is going to replace AFAs? The…
Solving Mainstream Storage Challenges
The storage problems that HPC and cloud data centers face are headline-grabbing, but solving mainstream storage challenges that more common organizations face is equally (if not more) important. Mainstream data centers struggle with limited IT staff, thin IT budgets, and new demands for high performance and increased capacity. They also must better protect the organization’s…
What is SDS as a Platform?
SDS as a Platform takes a holistic approach to solving storage challenges instead of the systems approach used by most SDS solutions, which force IT to purchase a storage system for each use case and explains why most data centers end up with six or more storage solutions in their data center. Software Defined Storage…
The Use Cases for Hard Disk Drives
Flash storage dominates the industry press so much so that it may be easy to forget the use cases for hard disk drives, but they do exist. While flash-only vendors claim otherwise, there are many situations where hard disk drive-based storage is superior, even for production use cases. Hard Disk Drives (HDD), as discussed in…
Simplifying Storage Provisioning
February 23, 2021 / Norman St. Pierre / No Comments Simplifying storage provisioning is a critical capability to look for in your next storage solution. While provisioning a single volume one time during an evaluation may seem easy, performing this task over and over again becomes tedious, time consuming and introduces the potential for errors….
The Case for Hard Drive Storage
Even in production, the case for hard drive storage is a strong one, but several vendors are trying to make a case against its use. Even reputable analysts state that the days of hard disk drives (HDD) are numbered. IT professionals should consider these sources carefully with a high degree of skepticism. There is a…
The True Cost of a Storage Refresh
What is the true cost of a storage refresh? More than you think! In the lives of data center IT personnel, there are three certainties they must deal with on a regular basis; thin budgets, limited staff, and never-ending storage refresh with the accompanying data migration to the new storage system. These storage refresh and…
Make Storage Ready for 2021
The State of StorONE: An update from our CEO, Gal Naor StorONE makes storage ready for 2021 and beyond. This past year was one like no other. With a collective sigh of relief and hope for a better tomorrow, we recognize the good that came from 2020. Thanks to our advanced planning and fortitude, 2020…