Tag: Storage

What is Software Defined Storage?  EMC ViPR announced at EMCWorld 2013

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

Here at EMC World 2013, one of the biggest themes is “software defined” storage. Much like the vague overuse of “cloud” as a marketing description, the term “software defined” is …

Exablox Brings It On – Enterprise Features for Everyone

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

Exablox announced their OneBlox storage system today which is sure to grab the attention of any non-storage expert who has ever struggled with more than one drive. What they’ve basically …

Extreme Enterprise Applications Drive Parallel File System Adoption

An IT industry analyst article published by Infostor.

By Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst and Consultant,
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With the advent of big data and cloud-scale delivery, companies are racing to deploy cutting-edge services. “Extreme” applications like massive voice and image processing or …

Commodity Infrastructure for Software Defined Storage – Coraid’s Scale Out Block

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

As a storage professional we can get overwhelmed trying to keep up with every new “alternative” architecture professing to replace our tried-and-true storage solutions. But there seems to be no …

Riverbed’s Edge Virtualization Redefines What Data “Center” Means

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

We’ve seen one physical barrier after another fall in the IT datacenter under increasing advances in virtualization.  It seems every hard-wired IT resource we’ve ever had to manage physically is …