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…
Hybrid Cloud Eliminates Backup
While snapshots can reduce your dependencies on it, if implemented correctly, Hybrid Cloud eliminates backup. In reality, primary storage solutions should have eliminated backup many years ago. The problem is that the limitations of enterprise-class storage features caused by inefficient software won’t allow the technology to finish the job. Because of these limitations, the features…
The State of StorONE – Q3 2020 Update
A Message from the CEO We are in the fourth quarter of a year like no other. The world around us has undergone profound changes over the past nine months. But, unfortunately, much remains stagnant. The ability to travel remains close to non-existent, and many employees are still working remotely. And, yet, many unknowns remain….
The Total Cost of Storage Replication
The total cost of storage replication keeps customers from realizing the full benefits of this vital feature. As a result, most storage professionals use replication as part of a disaster recovery strategy and only for the most mission-critical applications. Driving down replication costs opens up a world of problem-solving capabilities that IT can leverage every…
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 them is vital to lowering the overall cost of storage….
Better Storage, Better Protection, Better Pricing
Storage shouldn’t be so hard or so expensive. It is time for better storage and better pricing. The StorONE Q3-2020 release continues our assault on storage complexity by delivering critical new features that improve our customer’s ability to protect their data while lowering storage costs. Better Storage Pricing Earlier this year, StorONE put the industry…
Better Hybrid Storage for VMware
Instead of forcing customers to move to all-flash arrays (AFA), vendors need to provide better hybrid storage for VMware. The challenge that any virtual environment presents to a storage system is the workload variability of the virtual machine (VM) population. VMware has proven itself to be a reliable way to get the maximum value out…
Drive Density Kills RAID
While it lowers the cost of storing data, drive density kills RAID as a means of protecting against media failure. Today, both flash and hard disk media technologies are available in ~16TB capacities. These high capacity devices expose various weaknesses in traditional RAID algorithms and make its use suspect today and impractical in the near…
How to Stop Storage Migrations
Most IT professionals would love to stop doing storage migrations, but the reality is, that day is unlikely to come with current storage technology. Conventional wisdom says that IT professionals typically have to deal with a storage migration or refresh every three or four years. Still, in larger environments with four or five systems, storage…
Databases Require More Than All-Flash
All-Flash Array (AFA) vendors position their hardware as the cure-all for database storage but administrators know that databases require more than all-flash. The most important requirement of any database storage system is that it must maintain data integrity, an area where most all-flash arrays fail miserably. Another database requirement is to protect data from eventual…
Are All-Flash Vendors Afraid of Tiering?
Moving less active data to a lower-cost storage tier is the best way to reduce the total cost of storage, but for some reason, all-flash vendors are afraid of tiering. Their fear of the technology is evident by their stance that all-flash is superior to Hybrid Storage, no matter the storage problem. All-Flash Array (AFA)…