Author: Jason Phippen

Executive Summary Business IT is facing storage growth that’s exceeding even the highest estimates, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Unstructured data in the form of audio, video, digital images and sensor data now makes up an increasingly large majority of business data and presents a new set of challenges that […]

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SUSE® Enterprise Storage is a powerful, self-healing system for cost-efficient storage at scale. The SUSE Enterprise Storage solution is based on the Ceph distributed storage system. Ceph automates the storage process, storing and retrieving data in an object-based, fault-tolerant manner that maximizes disk usage and minimizes admin time. Your Ceph cluster is highly effective at […]

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The decline and fall of the enterprise array, and the open gate  for wider for SDS deployment? Here’s a few hard facts about the enterprise storage market from the bellwether of market share.    –          External storage – arrays – is the biggest segment at $5.4bn but fell 3.7% – a long term trend ODM […]

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6 Reasons Why Software Defined Storage Will Raise your Buying Power IT has traditionally worked out its storage requirements by looking at data growth levels and making a projection. It has generally paid for increases by replacing old arrays in an asset management life cycle and put new costs into specific projects, for example, paying […]

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Executive Overview: IRIS Professional Solutions wanted to bring the benefits of software-defined storage – high performance, resilience and flexibility – within the financial reach of all clients. By implementing SUSE® Enterprise Storage, based on open source Ceph technology, IRIS Professional Solutions gained a software-defined platform that supports massive scale with object oriented storage built on […]

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Replace EMC Centera hardware silos with future-proof  iTernity iCAS, SUSE Enterprise Storage and HPE industry standard hardware DELL/EMC Centera is dead! The End-of-life date in March 2018 poses a big challenge for storage administrators and IT managers. The software-defined archiving approach of iTernity iCAS and SUSE Enterprise Storage helps to overcome the limitations of legacy […]

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In this video question and answer session, SUSE asks Richard Fischera, Vice President, Principle Analyst Infrastructure and Operations for Forrester Research his view on enterprise storage.  We talk data explosion drivers, risks, changing data types, Software Defined, Open Source, hybrid, compliance and converged. So Richard question 1: What are the biggest factors driving explosive data […]

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HPC/AI Data Management with HPE DMF and SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph Technology Sanjeet Singh, Director of Storage Solutions, SUSE and Kirill Malkin, Director of Engineering, HPE With the data growth that customers are seeing in their HPC/AI workloads, they need an effective data management strategy. HPE Data Management Framework (DMF) is an […]

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* Critical Capabilities for Object Storage – Published: 25 January 2018 ID: G00304492 It is not easy to get onto a Gartner research note: you have to have the right – and robust – product capabilities, be able to demonstrate them in rigorous questionnaires, and you have to wait for an outcome you can’t control. […]

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Essential facts you need to know for preparation and compliance On May 25, 2018 the EU’s new rules covering data protection will come into force, bringing in sweeping changes in the law which directly affect what personal data can be stored, what consent is needed from users, the legal basis on which ‘personal’ data can […]

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