Service Providers: How Storage Infrastructure Can Help You Differentiate And Add Value To Your Cloud Storage Services

This paper examines customer expectations regarding cloud storage, and how your choice of infrastructure impacts your ability to deliver on those expectations. Infrastructure can help differentiate your service and create value for your clients. Read tips on selecting the right storage infrastructure that addresses clients’ evolving and demanding needs for storing, protecting and accessing their data and how IBM XIV Storage can address the needs of today’s services providers.
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Redefining the Economics of Storage

This white paper assesses Dell's storage and services vision and the company's ability to meet market demands.

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Boosting Storage Performance for IO Intensive Enterprise Applications

The business-critical applications that keep enterprises humming place ever-increasing I/O demands on storage. The Dell™ Compellent™ Storage Center™ platform optimizes I/O-intensive workloads in virtual desktop, messaging and database environments. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

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Redefining the Economics of Your Enterprise Data Center

With the volume, velocity and value of data accelerating at an ever-increasing pace, making a departure from the costly and complex approach to storage of the past is critical. Dell is redefining the economics of enterprise storage through modern storage architectures, a focus on customer workloads, and an end-to-end integrated portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and services offerings. Read this whitepaper by Dell and Intel® to see how. Intel Inside®. Powerful Solution Outside.

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The Dirty Little Secret of Storage TCO

Upgrading your storage system is a huge investment. Sometimes, storage professionals are forced to upgrade their storage system before it has stopped working. Why does this phenomenon occur? Access this white paper by Dell and Intel®, written by storage expert George Crump, to shed the light on the storage upgrade situation. Read on to discover his critiques about storage vendors, and what they can do to prevent technology obsolescence. Intel Inside®. Powerful Solution Outside.

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Analyst Report-Mixed All Flash Arrays Delivers Safer Higher Performance

What is the impact of an all-flash array with enterprise features and reliability on the mainstream data center? In the mainstream environment, storage system reliability and consistency are as important as extreme performance. This lab report from Storage Switzerland details how the Dell All-Flash Array achieves this balance nicely, allowing you to do more with the same hardware while spending less time fine tuning the storage for performance.

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Flash-optimized Data Progression

For several years, Dell Compellent Storage Center arrays powered by Intel® Xeon® processors have leveraged a unique application of RAID and tiering methods to optimize storage performance and capacity. With the emergence of higher performing controllers, as well as the rapid adoption of SSDs, Dell has a new level of Data Progression optimized for flash drives. The combination of write- and read-intensive SSDs and Flash-optimized Data Progression enables Storage Center arrays to deliver large amounts of high-performance solid-state storage at a fraction of the cost compared to other storage solutions. To introduce Flash-optimized Data Progression, this white paper summarizes Dell's current Data Progression techniques, gives a high-level description of SSDs, and describes the implementation of Flash-optimized Data Progression.

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SSG Report: Enterprise Use Cases for Solid State Storage/Flash Memory

Over the last three years, enterprise use of flash storage has grown into a $5 billion market. Adoption of flash is accelerating: 32% of IT pros currently use or have definitive plans to deploy flash.Check out this analyst report, which outlines enterprise solid state storage and why it matters to customers. It also highlights findings from a study of more than 550 IT professionals on their plans for SSD deployment. Read on to find out what your peers chose as the #1 vendor of choice to deploy flash and solid state storage technologies.

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SSG Report: Dell #1 Vendor of Choice for SSD (31% Of Storage Pros Choose Dell for Flash/SSDs)

Find out which vendor(s) your peers currently use or plan to use to deploy flash/SSDs in this highlight from SSG-NOW's IT professional adoption survey. You also can access the full report, along with additional resources about Dell Compellent Flash-optimized solutions.

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Redefining the Economics of Storage: Flash at the Price of Disk

Enterprise storage requirements are exploding as Big Data applications, increased mobile device usage and industry data retention regulations create a perfect storm of demand. View this whitepaper to see how Dell Compellent Storage Center arrays powered by Intel® Xeon® processors can help.

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Mobility in Financial Services: A Checklist Towards Regulatory Compliance

Like business leaders in every industry, decision makers in Financial Services (FS) organizations are increasingly turning to mobility to deliver on strategic objectives. They understand that mobilizing business processes can help improve customer satisfaction and response times; boost employee productivity; increase competitive advantage, and much more.

Most CIOs in these industries want nothing more than to help their line-of-business colleagues uncover new opportunities for growth.

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Inktank Ceph Enterprise

Inktank’s mission is to transform storage with Ceph®, the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that radically improves the economics and management of data management. Launched by leading Ceph developers, Inktank’s mission is to help enterprises use Ceph to break free of expensive and proprietary storage systems to decrease their storage costs, increase their operational flexibility, and effectively manage their rapidly growing data.

Inktank provides best-in-class professional services and support offerings to enterprises, service providers, and cloud platforms. By delivering enterprise-grade Ceph products and services, Inktank helps enterprises manage their storage in ways pioneered by Google and Amazon.

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Inktank: CRUSH ALGORITHM

Ceph is in the Linux kernel and has been integrated with the leading open source cloud management platforms. Key to Ceph’s design is the autonomous, self-healing, and intelligent Object Storage Daemon (OSD). Storage clients and OSDs both use the Controlled, Replication, Under, Scalable, Hashing (CRUSH) algorithm to efficiently compute information about data containers on demand, instead of having to depend on a central lookup table.

CRUSH provides a better data management mechanism than older approaches and enables massive scale by cleanly distributing the work to all the clients and OSDs in the cluster. CRUSH uses intelligent data replication to ensure resiliency, which is better suited to hyper-scale storage. Let’s take a deeper look at how CRUSH works to enable modern cloud storage infrastructures.

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Ceph®, The Future of Storage

Ceph®, The Future of Storage™, is a massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Ceph has been developed from the ground up to deliver object, block, and file system storage in one self-managing, self-healing platform with no single point of failure. With its highly scalable, software defined storage architecture, Ceph is an ideal replacement for legacy storage systems and provides a unified solution for cloud computing environments. Ceph is the foundation of Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise™ and the brainchild of Inktank® founder and CTO Sage Weil.
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