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Stop counting megabytes; it’s all about application-aware storage now

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.

Raw capacity numbers are becoming less useful as deduplication, compression and application-aware storage provide more value than sheer capacity.


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Whether clay pots, wooden barrels or storage arrays, vendors have always touted how …

External storage might make sense for Hadoop

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.

Using Hadoop to drive big data analytics doesn’t necessarily mean building clusters of distributed storage; a good old array might be a better choice.


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Using Hadoop to drive big data analytics doesn’t …

Mining the Data Your Clients Produce: Glassbeam SCALAR Lights Up Value

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

This week Glassbeam announced a new solution for vendors whose products in the hands of clients produce mountains of potentially valuable “back-end” data. Mining that data which can include streams …

Virtual Instruments Goes Deeper Into Storage Performance

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

Virtual Instruments, well-known for being able to address storage performance across infrastructure from the high to the low – from VM down to individual packets in the SAN, has …

Storage Virtualization Meets Software Defined Storage: EMC ViPR 1.0

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

EMC recently GA’d a first version of ViPR. Many storage folks are not still clear about what ViPR is all about.  Is it just storage virtualization repackaged to augment EMC’s …

Choosing The Best Hadoop Infrastructure for Enterprise IT

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

Here at Taneja Group we’ve just published a new market landscape premium report on Enterprise Hadoop Infrastructure aimed at helping IT folks survey, evaluate and choose the right Hadoop distribution …