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By: Larry Morris

September 24, 2019 3:00 pm

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Persistent Storage for Containers: Why the Future is Open Source

Software containerization is unlikely to be at the top of the list of considerations for the average storage administrator.  First and foremost storage professionals are going to be concerned with every enterprise’s most pressing problem: managing the ‘explosive’ volume of data within the constraints of their limited IT budget. However, there are […]

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By: Larry Morris

August 27, 2019 1:00 pm

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Software-Defined Storage is taking over… Are You Ready?

Gartner predicts that in 4 years 50% of all storage will be either on-premise Software-Defined Storage (SDS) or in the public cloud – more than tripling from 15% today. A few years ago, IDC made a similar prediction, forecasting a compound annual growth rate for SDS of 13.5% between 2017 and 2021, with the […]

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By: Mike Dilio

June 24, 2019 9:00 am

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 Now Available

With the current increase in data creation, increased costs and flat to lower budgets, IT organizations are looking for ways to deploy highly scalable and resilient storage solutions that manage data growth and complexity, reduce costs and seamlessly adapt to changing demands. Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of SUSE Enterprise Storage […]

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By: Mike Dilio

May 8, 2019 7:54 pm

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SUSE Enterprise Storage rated ‘excellent’ across multiple categories in Gartner’s latest analysis of critical capabilities for object storage

The first sentence of the opening paragraph of Gartner’s latest round-up states ‘cost reduction is driving interest in on-premise object storage’. That’s a statement few commentators would disagree with, as IT teams in just about every vertical sector routinely facing the same squeeze: an all-too familiar scenario of ‘exploding’ data volumes […]

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By: Mike Dilio

March 26, 2019 12:47 pm

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SUSECON 2019 “MY KIND OF OPEN” Nashville, TN April 1-5

I am really excited about next week. I will be attending my first SUSECON and it’s in one of my favorite places, Nashville Tennessee. If you haven’t registered yet you still have time. Come join us so you can lead your company into a digital transformation by learning how to utilize open source […]

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By: Mike Dilio

March 19, 2019 6:10 pm

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 Beta Program

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, the upcoming release from SUSE, enables IT organizations to seamlessly adapt to changing business demands while reducing IT operational expense with new features focused on containerized and cloud workload support, improved integration with public cloud and enhanced data protection capabilities. This release of SUSE Enterprise Storage will be available for first […]

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By: Mike Dilio

February 5, 2019 3:24 pm

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It’s time you think about upgrading, from SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 to 5.5

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 has been available since October 2, 2018. Many of our customers have migrated to the new release and many are evaluating it. If you’re currently running SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 you really need to start thinking about upgrading. There were many new features added and improvements made in release […]

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By: LarsMB

November 26, 2018 7:00 pm

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Protect Your Time and Money from the Data Explosion

As today’s data explosion continues, there’s really no question that for the IT manager or anyone in a similar role, software-defined storage (SDS) is going to be a worthwhile investment. With it, your organization can scale your storage to match your rapidly ballooning data, while still keeping tight control of your costs and […]

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By: Larry Morris

October 29, 2018 3:49 pm

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Committing to an SDS Solution That Delivers the Most Business Value

Choosing the right software-defined storage (SDS) solution for your business can’t be a snap decision—your choice will affect the way you manage data and how your organization grows for many years to come. It’s critical to ask some hard questions; namely, what is the value of undergoing a switch to this vendor’[…]

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