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New @georgeacrump Blog: Programmable Storage Without The Programming

As data centers scale, the ability to automate routine tasks enables this growth to occur without requiring additional staff. The problem is most automation requires learning a programming or scripting language which most IT professionals don’t have the time to do. As a result, they either keep manually doing tasks over and over one at a time, or hire an outside consultant to automate the tasks…

New SlideShare: Modern Storage Infrastructures for Modernized Data Centers

Organizations are modernizing their data centers by implementing technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Splunk, Spark and Hadoop. The “default” storage infrastructures for these technologies were originally designed to use direct attached hard disk drives to make access local and reduce costs. But these designs had similar limitations that other direct attached designs, at the same time traditional…

New @georgeacrump Blog: A Turnkey Storage Architecture for OpenStack and Docker

Scale-Out All-Flash Solution with Micron and SuperMicro

Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions bring the ultimate in flexibility but it does require that IT professionals work through the process of fine tuning the software with both the storage hardware and the environment that will use its storage services. The need to properly match hardware configuration with software based storage services…

Upcoming Live Webinar: Modern Storage Infrastructures for Modernized Data Centers

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Organizations are modernizing their data centers by implementing technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Splunk, Spark and Hadoop. The “default” storage infrastructures for these technologies were originally designed to use direct attached hard disk drives to make access local and reduce costs. But these designs had similar limitations that other direct attached designs, at the…

New Blog by @georgeacrump "Designing an All-Flash Object Store"

Object storage is set to become THE way organizations will store unstructured data. As this transition occurs those same organizations are expecting more from object storage than just a “cheap and deep” way to store information. They expect the system will deliver data as fast as their analytics applications want it. The problem is that in terms of performance most object storage systems are…

New Blog by @georgeacrump "The Need for Speed - High Performance Object Storage"

Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher performing object storage solution will better match the needs of a lot of use cases, including analytics and social discovery. The faster these use cases can process data and…

New Blog by @georgeacrump "What Exactly is Software Defined Storage?"

Software-Defined Storage (SDS) separates the storage software from the storage hardware. The result should be a model that allows organizations to buy storage hardware systems from multiple vendors that address specific use cases but have the ability to operate, not just manage, them from a single interface. The payoff for SDS is more IT agility, operational efficiency improvements and a…

New Blog by @georgeacrump "Is Hyperconverged worth the Hype?"

Hyperconvergence is capturing the attention of IT professionals. The apparent simplicity of the technology is certainly appealing to an IT staff that is often stretched too thin to properly manage the environment. As a result the IT staff is often responding to requests for more IT resources by haphazardly applying more hardware. Hyperconvergence promises to change all that. Each node…