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Storage Directions for the Software-Defined Datacenter
The demand for services in datacenters is steadily growing as companies recognize the value of setting up or growing a service in seconds or minutes and of able to increase business agility....
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On the Balkanization of Data Storage
Historical Parallels 2014 marked the centennial of the beginning of the First World War (WWI): an event that had a terrible human cost and paved the way to major political and social changes across...
View ArticleRelevance of POSIX in the Big Data Era?
Let’s start with a thought exercise: imagine your application issues a write() call followed by a read(). What would you expect to get back in the read operation? Here are your options: Always get back...
View ArticleWhy Object Storage Is Making Inroads Into Enterprise Storage Deployments
The amount of data stored within an enterprise is growing at a phenomenal rate. In the late ‘90s, a storage system with one petabyte capacity was considered a great accomplishment— you got your name in...
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VMware and the Future of Storage and Availability
From the early days of VMware, it became clear that dealing with storage in efficient and scalable ways were key requirements for the success of virtualization in enterprise environments. Indeed, the...
View ArticleSpicing up Data Lifecycle Management with Hybrid Cloud Storage Recipes
As enterprises grapple with exponential data growth, they are looking for new models to efficiently store, analyze, and archive data. Software-defined storage (SDS), as well as the hybrid cloud model,...
View ArticleIs it a Storage System? Is it a Database? The ongoing blurring of boundaries...
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a storage system? Well, rotating disks! Storage has been traditionally consumed either in the form of block storage or as files....
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VMware Virtual SAN: The Software-Defined Storage Platform of the Future
This week at VMworld 2015, we announced Virtual SAN 6.1, the third-generation of VMware’s hyper-converged infrastructure for VMs. With this release, we are introducing several major enhancements and...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Enterprise Data
What constitutes business-critical data for an enterprise today? A decade ago, the answer would be straightforward: the data associated with business-critical applications such as inventory management,...
View ArticleThe CAP Aftermath: Return of the Silos!
Enterprises today employ a variety of specialized NoSQL/NewSQL data platforms for managing documents, key-values, graphs, sparse tables, etc. Developers love the specialized APIs as they increase...
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