Author: Mike

Data lakes swim with golden information for analytics

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.


One of the biggest themes in big data these days is data lakes.

Available data grows by the minute, and useful data comes in many different shapes and levels of structure. Big …

Moving to all-flash? Think about your data storage infrastructure

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.


Everyone is now onboard with flash. All the key storage vendors have at least announced entry into the all-flash storage array market, with most having offered hybrids — solid-state drive-pumped traditional arrays …

Data Awareness and Operational Intelligence – IT Can Step Up By Automatically Adding Value to Data

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

This is a big title deserving a full blown report, maybe even evolving market landscape research, but here are a few teasers to get your juices flowing –

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Massive IOPS with Drops In Price-Performance – Early 2015 SPC-2 Standings

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

There is something quite interesting happening on the SPC-2 top 10 results page. Right now, HP (with XP7) and Kaminario, a hot all-flash solution, are leading the performance list. …

InfiniBand Updates Specs Preparing for 10000 Node Exascale Clusters

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

We’ve long been fans of InfiniBand, watching as new generations of enterprise class scale-out clusters and storage solutions learn from the HPC world how to achieve really high-speed interconnection. …

Are all software-defined storage vendors the same?

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

What does software-defined storage mean? How is it implemented? And why does it matter for data center managers?


Software-defined storage is an overused and under-defined term, but the general idea is to …