Is the Cloud Next Thing for Long Term Data Retention or Archival?

it is clear that most vendors are focused towards utilizing public cloud or hybrid cloud environments to archive the long-term data. Use of the hybrid cloud means that private cloud can be used to store data, which is bound by compliance and security norms critical to organizations.

NVMe over Fabrics: Fibre Channel vs. RDMA

For enterprises deploying NVMe over Fabric, choosing between Fibre Channel and RDMA can be difficult, because both have advantages and disadvantages.

OpenStack and NVMe-over-Fabrics – Getting High Performance for Network Connected SSDs

This article focused light on a demonstration of utilizing SPDK storage framework from Intel for generating high-performance SSD transmission of data with the OpenStack based system and NVMe over fabrics.

Why NVMe is Important for New Age Data Center Workloads?

Any enterprise using SSDs will get benefited from the application of NVMe protocol. NVMe based infrastructure will be ideal for use cases representing SQL/NoSQL databases, real-time analytics, high-performance computing (HPC). NVMe enables new applications for machine learning, IoT databases, and analytics; real-time

SSD (Solid-State Drive) – Adoption and Business Value

A SSD (solid-state drive) is a device which uses an assimilated circuit as memory to store data persistently. Unlike HDD, SSD does not have any mechanical moving components and compared to other electromechanical disks, SSD is shock resistant, does not make noise, is faster, and has lower latency. Server hard drives have not been

What is Hybrid Scalable Converged Unified Storage?

Phew! The technical jargons are going the medical naming convention, isn’t it? Practically, they all can be separated to be on their own, so let’s define them separately & then combine them together to see what we get. Layman definition of the individual Terms: Hybrid: It literally means many things build into 1 single Unit, Scalable: It means

Hyper-V shared VHDX vs VHDX

With the introduction of Windows 2k12 R2, shared VHDX has been added along with VHDX (Virtual Hard disk Extended). VHDX supports higher LUN storage (64 TB) and…

Docker: In the Spotlight – Part 1

Today Docker is becoming highly popular buzzword in the field of Virtualization and Cloud computing. Today there are so many businesses that are already moving their production…

5 Key Features Of Great Software Development

It is a world of difference between a truly effective software development and routine. Development of customized software is one of the main ways in which companies…