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Two Lessons: Minimize Data Movement, Store Only What You Need

November 1, 2016 Big Data, Data Access Platform

These days storage is cheap. You can buy a 2.5-inch 16 TB SSD (actual capacity 15.36 TB) based on third-generation 3D V-NAND with 48 TLC layers and 256Gbit per die — with the promise of 40 percent higher density, twice the speed, and half the power requirement of the previous generation. You can also buy […]

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Multi-tiering is Occam’s razor for storage systems

June 28, 2016 SDS, Multi-tiering

In the past couple of years, we have seen the legacy data access and delivery system industry falter while a new software-defined data access and delivery (SDS) industry has been emerging. Hitherto the definition of SDS has been nebulous, vaguely leaning on software-defined networking (SDN) and virtualization. Data access and delivery system buyers need a […]

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