Author: Mike Matchett

Make a custom #SSD for me w. Burlywood

The Big Picture: SSD's have been looked at as a commodity in storage arrays but, what if you've got special requirements…and need unique workload-based attributes in your storage? If you're a cloud scale infrastructure or services provider then ha…

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How can I handle the massive amount of unstructured data better? (with Aparavi)

The Big Picture: You've got backup data. And it's for recovery but…it also can be used for other purposes too. The workflow for archival, cloud mobility and other use cases can now be created based on the type of data …

X-IO Storage and adjustable data de-dupe in All Flash Arrays

Chat w. Bill Miller, CEO of XIO about how they enable you to tune the data reduction functionality so you can turn it off for volumes of data that aren't very reducable. That saves alot of overhead, especially when data …

How to make big data self-service for your users

Notable Quote: (Kelly Stirman of Dremio): “Companies have huge, huge amounts of data, but it’s spread across many different systems, and it seems like, for decades, the answer to the problem was, “Hey, just move all your data into a …

Primary Storage, Secondary Storage, Backup & DR—all as a service

The Big Picture: The convergence of storage…be it primary or secondary…with services designed to protect that data is a huge benefit today. Toss in a mix of on-prem, off-prem, public and private cloud…with the ability to seamlessly protect and ac… …

Serverless technology obfuscates workflows, performance data

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


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Serverless and microservices reshape the application stack into something that looks like a swath of stars in the sky. How do you find a slow, misconfigured component in this interconnected galaxy?

Mike …