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Latest @georgeacrump Blog: What to Look For in a Modern Storage Network

Legacy storage network architectures can’t keep up with the scale and performance requirements of modern data sets and workloads such as the Internet of Things (IoT) analytics, creating the need for transformation to support new business demands.

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Fibre Channel is a mature technology entrenched as the go-to for Tier 1 applications, but a focus on right-sizing infrastructure per…

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Will the Operating System Kill SDS? - LINBIT

Software defined storage (SDS) continues to struggle for relevance in a crowded storage marketplace. While a few products are gaining a following, many more have either failed or been sold to other vendors. Additionally, now operating systems also pose a real threat to SDS’ value and its future.

Most operating systems provide the same core functionality as most SDS solutions. Linux poses a…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Creating a Real-time Storage Network

Traditionally, systems create data, process it, and then store it for a time before accessing it again in response to a user request. Essentially, data is processed in batches. In the modern data center, the move is toward real-time analysis to drive machine learning and artificial intelligence. Data is now streamed and applications operate on it as it is created or very soon thereafter. The…

Latest @georgeacrump Blog: Next Generation Networks Need to be More than Fast

The data center network is on the verge of one of its most dramatic upgrades in bandwidth in decades. Virtualized data centers, as well as hyperscale and rack scale environments, are driving the need for higher bandwidth networks. These environments have the computing power to host dozens of virtual machines per server and analyze massive amounts of information in near real-time. The storage…

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Building Smarter, Simpler Storage Networks - Cisco Storage

Storage architectures are becoming increasingly more complicated. There is more data coming from more applications. There are more users and developers. And there are more operational challenges as IT tries to maximize flash performance across multiple protocols. The storage network is the cardiovascular system providing the organization the data it needs as it continues to modernize itself.

One…

Integrating Dell Blade Servers into Cisco Nexus Environments

I recently had some discussions with a customer looking to connect a Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e to a Cisco Nexus and I was quite surprised at the number of resources available to assist in the project.  Below you will find links to the documents I found with the hope it will help you out in the near future.

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