Author: Jason Phippen

Depending on who you ask, digital data is growing at a combined annual growth rate of 20, 30 or even 40 percent. But if you’re in an IT department today, you don’t need a technology analyst to tell you the obvious. We’re undergoing a data explosion—and mostly, that’s a good thing. We need to store […]

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With passenger numbers growing by almost 30 percent annually, LOT Polish Airlines needed to ensure its systems could support rapidly expanding business. To gain flexibility and break the linear relationship between business growth and IT costs, LOT migrated from Red Hat Enterprise Support to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support, reducing OS subscription fees […]

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SUSE Manager 3.2, the latest release from SUSE, delivers best-in-class open source infrastructure management with new enhancements focused on lowering costs, improving DevOps efficiency and easily managing large complex deployments across IoT, cloud and container infrastructures. As a key component of a software-defined infrastructure, SUSE Manager 3.2 provides you with three major key new benefits: […]

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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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