Exposing the High Cost of RAID
As drive capacities continue to increase and customer tolerance of data outages decreases, the high cost of RAID impacts how customers buy storage. Vendors hide most of RAID’s cost elements, making it hard to understand the real cost of protection. Exposing these costs and eliminating…
New LightBoard Video: Reduce Backup Costs With Better Primary Storage
Organizations invest a significant portion of their IT budget on backup infrastructure. The combination of backup software licenses and the hardware to store backup data is staggering. They make these investments because their primary storage systems cannot provide true backup and disaster recovery protection. At StorONE, our S1:Data Protection Suite offers complete protection from every…
The New Economy Changes Storage Economics
COVID-19 is changing economies worldwide, and the new economy changes storage economics. Today, lowering the cost of storage infrastructure is more critical than ever. Equally important, however, is increasing efficiency, getting more from your storage investment and simplifying the architecture so that it requires fewer IT staff to run it. Another necessary change is the…
Eliminate Analytics Storage Silos
As the environments become increasingly common, IT needs to eliminate analytics storage silos. These use cases place extreme pressure on storage and compute resources to keep pace with the applications doing the processing. Many storage systems are custom-designed for analytics use cases. As a result, the organization ends up buying a separate solution, which not…
The State of StorONE
A Message from the CEO A question I get asked often is what the state of StorONE is, especially now. StorONE, like almost every other company in the world, is dealing in some way with the effects of the COVID-19. Chris Mellor, the editor at Blocks and File, articulated the concern well in his recent…
The Problems of Using Primary Storage for DR
Most organizations count on their backup process for disaster recovery (DR) because of the problems of using primary storage for DR. Most backup solutions are far more flexible with what they can use as a replication target. The problem with using backup for DR is it wasn’t designed for the task. It often requires manual…
Use Snapshots to Reduce Backup Costs
If the storage solution implements them correctly, IT can use snapshots to reduce backup costs. The problem is most snapshot implementations are full of limitations. Despite the claims of many storage vendors, most of their implementations can’t support an unlimited number of snapshots. Also, most can’t retain snapshots indefinitely. The growth in the number of…
RAID is Not Data Protection
RAID is not data protection. It does not provide adequate protection from multiple media failures. The technology also doesn’t offer rapid recovery, especially as drive sizes increase. In addition, RAID doesn’t adapt well to changes in the environment. RAID doesn’t protect against multiple forms of failure, can’t be counted on for rapid recovery, and adds…
LightBoard Video – StorONE’s Q2-2020 Release Can Make You a Storage Hero
StorONE’s mission is to help IT professionals be Storage Heroes by driving down storage costs, improving data protection, and increasing performance. Our Q2-2020 release continues that commitment. Join StorONE’s Chief Marketing Officer, George Crump, as he uses the LightBoard to explain how the new capabilities in our Q2-2020 release can help you become a storage…
The Write Cache Crutch
Most storage systems create a write-cache using system RAM to accelerate performance. The write cache crutch enables these systems to improve performance. Like most crutches, however, it creates dependencies that put data at risk and complicate system design. The motivation for a write cache is simple. Most systems have poor performance when writing directly to…
Lowering Cost Per IOPS
Lowering cost per IOPS is a more urgent priority for IT professionals to have than trying to find the system with the most IOPS. Most data centers don’t need anything close to the IOPS potential of today’s systems, yet vendors seem to be in an endless race to deliver more and more IOPS. The challenge…
