Application storage
Whether your organization is using enterprise databases, ERP systems, or productivity tools for Windows or Mac computers, you need to know how to best manage your application storage. Each application requires unique application storage services to run efficiently and give users the best experience.
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The Importance of Smarter Data Backup
Learn how to drive a successful data management strategy and ensure business-critical data is preserved and recoverable when needed, using the native capabilities of backups.
Application storage News
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January 31, 2020
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Jan'20
Data storage architecture poised for disruption in 2020
Experts predict edge computing, 5G and containers will fuel computational storage, new storage systems dedicated to container-based applications, and flash-based object stores.
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January 23, 2020
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Jan'20
Q&A: SwiftStack object storage zones in on AI, ML, analytics
Q&A: SwiftStack's founder and president Joe Arnold says disk-based object storage can deliver the concurrency and throughput that AI, machine learning and analytics workloads need.
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January 16, 2020
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Jan'20
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage seeks to simplify Ceph
Red Hat delayed a major OpenShift Container Storage update to work on simplifying Ceph storage and management; 4.2 update also improves scalability and multi-cloud portability.
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January 14, 2020
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Jan'20
Backup focus in 2020: Data at the edge and in containers
Storage and backup industry analysts say as data grows at the edge and inside containers, those areas will require more attention from backup products in 2020.
Application storage Get Started
Bring yourself up to speed with our introductory content
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4 considerations for vSphere disk provisioning
To provision disk space in vSphere, consider the following: The size of data stores you require, thin vs. thick provisioning, storage acceleration and managing free disk space. Continue Reading
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QLC NAND
QLC NAND (quad-level cell NAND) is a form of NAND flash memory that can store up to four bits of data per memory cell. Continue Reading
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8 factors that make AI storage more efficient
AI workloads need storage optimized for performance, capacity and availability. Discover everything you'll want to consider when planning storage for AI applications. Continue Reading
Evaluate Application storage Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
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The best enterprise storage products of 2019
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Why the future of AI storage may have to exclude flash
Discover why large, high-node count and hard disk-only scale-out storage architectures address the ever-growing capacity demands and challenges of AI architectures and workloads. Continue Reading
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Top data storage and management tools win Products of the Year
The winning system and application software products for 2019 innovated in their own ways, and each one is breaking new ground in storage performance and simplicity. Continue Reading
Manage Application storage
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
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Time to rethink IT for containerized workloads
Employing IT tools that span on- and off-premises hybrid environments is a first step toward optimizing infrastructure design and management for container-based environments. Continue Reading
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Using on-premises object storage beyond secondary storage
On-premises object-based storage is replacing traditional storage in areas such as streaming, big data and IoT. Get the latest on how this technology is being used. Continue Reading
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Computational storage for IoT and other potential use cases
IoT is the main application for computational storage. Another potential use case is inside scale-out server architecture, but those applications are still under development. Continue Reading
Problem Solve Application storage Issues
We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
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Composable infrastructure platform pros and cons
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How to keep VM sprawl in check
Virtualization improves hardware use, but the pendulum can swing the other way and result in an overallocation of resources. Here's how to maintain the balance. Continue Reading
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Debunking 5 common myths about data storage containers
Storage containers can hold a lot of things, including misconceptions. Here are five common container storage myths that need to vanish. Continue Reading