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By: Jason Phippen

July 20, 2017 3:46 am

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University of the Arts Utrecht, HKU gain a robust, high-performance backbone for file and block storage with SUSE Enterprise Storage

As resolutions and frame rates rise, HKU’s students needed to store and share increasing quantities of multimedia data. The university’s existing fragmented, multi-site storage infrastructure could no longer meet these growing demands. By deploying a four-node SUSE Enterprise Storage™ cluster—which will soon stretch across two locations for added resilience— HKU has gained […]

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By: Jason Phippen

June 20, 2017 7:00 am

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SUSE Enterprise Storage helping IT provider Phact to seamlessly keep pace with data growth

  With soaring data volumes pushing existing storage systems to their limits, IT provider Phact decided to transform its storage infrastructure with SUSE Enterprise Storage. With this highly scalable and efficient software-defined storage solution in place, Phact has broken down the barriers to growth—minimising time spent managing storage, reacting faster to changing business […]

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By: Jason Phippen

June 19, 2017 5:52 am

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Case Study: University Hospital Essen supports soaring volumes of patient data with SUSE Enterprise Storage and Thomas-Krenn

University Hospital Essen is a public teaching hospital that offers comprehensive medical care, and state-of-the art diagnostics and therapies that live up to the highest international standards. Located in Essen, Germany, the hospital serves the wider Ruhr metropolitan area, treating approximately 195,000 outpatients and 53,000 inpatients every year. With many modern clinics and […]

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By: SUSE

May 14, 2017 4:08 am

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Ceph vs Swift for OpenStack object storage, why the ‘pros vs cons’ approach to evaluation is a flawed analysis

For a casual outside observer there’s a lot in common between Ceph and Swift: they are both open source projects, they have both enjoyed major and ongoing increases in the number of developers actively engaged in improving them, they are both mature, and they both have a legion of fans with serious engineering skills […]

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By: SUSE

April 20, 2017 5:12 am

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University Hospital Essen supports soaring volumes of patient data with SUSE Enterprise Storage

“It usually takes three months to procure, install and configure a new mid-range storage system and migrate data over. Now, we can simply order a new bespoke and tested commodity system from Thomas-Krenn, and add its capacity to the storage pool within days – at 70 to 80 percent lower expenditure.” - Michael […]

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By: SUSE

March 22, 2017 7:40 am

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5 Steps to getting started with Open Source Software Defined Storage – and why you should take them

Back in 2013, analyst group IDC calculated that the total amount of data created and replicated in the world had edged beyond 4.4 zettabytes – a staggering number. The statement made the headlines and was widely repeated across media websites dealing with Big Data and the related storage issues. At the time, IDC attributed […]

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By: SUSE

March 7, 2017 2:00 pm

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Stirred Up About Storage: Why 82% of organizations want to change their approach and move to software-defined storage

According to independent research conducted for SUSE by Loudhouse, a staggering 82% of organizations across the entire world, from Indiana to India and Europe to Eurasia have their approach to storage under the microscope – driven to make changes by the fear that their business’ growth will be choked by rising data volumes. So what’[…]

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By: SUSE

March 1, 2017 7:02 am

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The four things that enterprises hate most about storage

When you think about spending money on your home, you think about things that might make life easier and more enjoyable: the extension on the kitchen that means the entire family can get round the table at Christmas – even the in-laws; the extra bedroom, and the privacy-affording en-suite bathroom. This kind of spending is […]

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By: SUSE

January 10, 2017 5:43 am

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A Frugal Solution for Large Data

SUSE Enterprise Storage Big files and big storage capacities pose big challenges for IT departments. If you work in a Large Data storage environment, you can cut your total storage deployment cost by a factor of three if you use a solution tailored for the Large Data environment: SUSE Enterprise Storage. Large Data is the […]

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