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…
The High Cost of Slow RAID Rebuilds
The big concern of slow rebuilds is they place your organization’s data at risk, but most IT professionals overlook the high cost of slow RAID rebuilds. A RAID rebuild is the ultimate test of a storage system’s efficiency. Can the storage system handle the rebuild workload, complete the process quickly, and return the system to…
The Lost Decade of Storage Innovation
2010-2020 is the lost decade of storage innovation. Indeed, the decade introduced revolutionary enterprise storage hardware. However, the inability to tap into those innovations has left IT professionals extremely frustrated. The cause of their frustration is the inability of storage software to keep pace with hardware innovation. While you can probably easily list a dozen…
Better Backup Can Consolidate Storage
Implementing better backup can consolidate storage, not just data protection storage but all storage. Every data center wants to reduce the number of storage systems it supports and eliminate storage migrations. The challenge is finding a solution that can address all workloads and protocols while also waiting until various storage assets are ready for replacement….
Storage and PCIe Gen 4
Storage and PCIe Gen 4 are made for each other. PCIe Gen 4’s potential to double storage controller bandwidth should significantly reduce the number of controllers a customer needs to meet their bandwidth and scalability requirements. However, your adoption of PCIe Gen 4 may be delayed for years by your storage vendor. If your vendor…
Requirements for Extreme High-Availability
The requirements for extreme high-availability create a big challenge for the organization. Creating a highly available storage infrastructure that your organization can afford seems almost impossible. Achieving the goal of an affordable highly-available storage infrastructure requires a flexible storage solution that can deliver various protection strategies across a wide variety of storage hardware. The Levels…
2021 Database Storage Requirements
Oracle, MySQL, and MS-SQL continue to host most organizations’ critical applications, but in 2021, database storage requirements are fundamentally different from ten years ago. Modern databases are multi-threaded, write-intensive environments that require incredibly low latency. The big challenge for IT professionals is not only meeting these requirements but doing so cost-effectively. Data Integrity – Database…
Does Dedupe Have a Future?
Deduplication almost single-handedly created the all-flash array (AFA) market, but does dedupe have a future? So far, in this series, we’ve made the case that you can achieve similar capacity efficiency through better storage software. Here, we’ll look at other market influences that may cause deduplication to fall out of favor entirely. To get the…
Better Storage Software Beats Dedupe
IT Professionals are learning that when it comes to capacity efficiency, better storage software beats dedupe. The problem with deduplication is that it imposes a significant performance impact and may put data at risk. There are other ways to improve capacity efficiency that work across every workload and data type. Using better storage software enables…
RAID as an Alternative to Deduplication
Better storage software can provide features that deliver superior capacity efficiencies, which offer an alternative to deduplication. In this series we will examine how better storage software, can deliver these efficiencies without negatively impacting performance, raising costs, or placing data at risk. This first article will look at an unexpected source, RAID, as an alternative…
The Inefficiency of Scale-Out Storage
While it seems to solve many storage challenges, the inefficiency of scale-out storage adds cost and complexity to the storage infrastructure. The challenge with scale-out vendors is that they are more concerned with adding storage nodes to the cluster than getting the most out of each node within that cluster. In our on-demand webinar “Showdown…