Podcast: Enhancing Storage Scalability and Performance with SUSE and Intel
Sanjeet Singh, Director of Storage Solutions at SUSE discusses the recent release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 5. Sanjeet illustrates how legacy storage products have reached a bottleneck and are unable to scale to meet rapidly growing amounts of data. He discusses how SUSE Enterprise Storage is a software defined storage product that enables customers to tune their data center storage to their exact individual workload needs, significantly reducing cost and providing unlimited scalability. – Listen now
Podcast: Shared Ceph Data Lake for Hadoop/Spark Clusters Accelerated by Intel
Brent Compton, Senior Director of Storage Solution Architectures at Red Hat, and Brien Porter, Senior Program Manager for Storage Solutions at Intel, discuss software defined storage solutions for enterprises. Brien and Brent talk about their focus on making Spark, Hadoop, and Ceph work better on Intel hardware and helping enterprises scale efficiently. – Listen now
Podcast: How E8 Storage is Accelerating Cloud Based Services with Intel
Julie Herd, Director of Technical Marketing at E8 Storage, highlights the storage performance E8 Storage is delivering with the Intel® SSD Data Center Family with NVM Express* (NVMe*). Julie discusses how E8 Storage built a new architecture specifically for Intel SSDs with NVMe, which allows them to deliver extremely high flash storage performance to cloud service providers, while remaining reliable and available. – Listen now
Podcast: Build a Self-Driving Storage Infrastructure with ProphetStor
Brian Huang, Senior Director of ProphetStor, discusses ProphetStor's advancements in self-driving storage infrastructure technology. ProphetStor recently announced their new product called datacenter.ai, which is an AI product that can be used to predict disk failure and storage server performance. Brian explains the benefits of a more agile, automated, and intelligent storage infrastructure, and how both enterprise and cloud services data centers can utilize this technology. – Listen now
Podcast: Maxta: The Power of Hyperconvergence Software
Arjun Narang, Product Manager at Maxta, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Maxta's hyperconvergence software. Maxta is a software company that unites compute and storage devices, with a VM-centric focus. Arjun explains the benefits of software and VM-centric hyperconvergence and how Maxta is taking advantage of the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and has seen a significant improvement in performance. – Listen now
Webinar: Top Your Data Center Storage Tiers with NVMe
Charlie Fei, Product Manager discusses when and why you should accelerate your hot data by placing NVMe in the 1st tier of your data center storage. Charlie introduces some unique NVMe server solutions designed and manufactured by AIC, explain the benefits of NVMe storage and also provide an overview of storage tiers. – Watch on demand
Webinar: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: Intel-powered Ultra-Performance
Get a first-hand look into how utilizing StarWind HyperConverged Appliance, powered by Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family and Intel SSD Data Center Family. This pairing will allow you to reap the benefits of NVMe over Fabrics, resulting in amazing performance. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Kaminario's Perpetual Array Facilitates Adoption of New Intel Technology
The Kaminario K2 all-flash array has the unique ability, called Perpetual Array, to scale, both up and out, and mix & match storage media and controllers. With Intel driving new CPU technologies and introducing new types of storage media such as 3DXpoint, Kaminario’s Perpetual Array allows the adoption of Intel’s innovation. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Real World Guidance for Implementing VMware Virtual SAN on NVMe
VMware's Virtual SAN 6.2 adds new capabilities that dramatically change the value of hyper-converged infrastructure for broad scale deployment. If you are considering hyper converged infrastructure, learn more from Intel and Supermicro engineers on best design practices for Virtual SAN in an All-Flash NVMe from pre-configured and pre-certified Ready Nodes to certified components that can be leveraged to design your own system for varying workload requirements. – Watch on demand
Webinar: How Zadara Storage keeps You Agile in Uncertain Times
In times of uncertainty, it is vital to be flexible and agile to adapt to unexpected changes in your requirements. Having the ability to respond to both increases and decreases in IT requirements - without breaking your budget will determine who succeeds and who doesn't. Learn from Bob Sarubbi and Doug Jury of Zadara Storage how you can implement an “immortal storage solution” with the flexibility, scalability, and agility of the cloud while enjoying economics of pay-as-you-go Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS). – Watch on demand
Webinar: Decoupling Storage from Compute in Apache Hadoop with Ceph
Intel and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) partnered to create a block storage solution that delivers multi-tenancy, workload flexibility, and massive scalability utilizing Ceph. Using a Hadoop workload, Ceph was optimized to provide backend storage solution. To provide the performance needed to disaggregate Hadoop storage, a hybrid deployment of Intel Solid State Drives with NVMe and HDDs where performance is optimized with Intel® Cache Acceleration Software. – Watch on demand
Webinar: True Enterprise Class Centralized NVMe Storage from E8 Storage
E8 Storage recently announced their centralized NVMe storage solution, the E8 D24, using Intel dual-ported SSDs. E8 Storage is the first vendor to bring to the market a true enterprise class centralized storage array using dual-ported Intel drives. This solution provides amazing performance (up to 10M IOPS in a 2U form factor) and Enterprise class storage features such as controller and path failover (made possible by using Intel dual-ported SSDs). – Watch on demand
Webinar: Intel NVMe SSD supercharges Windows Server 2016 Hyper-Converged
DataON and Intel maximize the performance of Windows Server 2016 thanks to Intel's NVMe SSD and DataON's Hyper-Converged Cluster Appliance platform. NVMe SSD based storage offers 3X read and 1.5X write performance when compared to traditional SSDs, making it an innovative choice for those looking to push the bounds of their data centers. Intel's latest enterprise NVMe SSD offering empowers high IO performance for EVGA's IOP intensive enterprise applications demanding in-memory applications. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Flexible Offering of Enterprise Software-Defined Solutions
The webinar will discuss what Supermicro-Nexenta has to offer in the software defined storage space, all of the Nexenta software features, Supermicro total solutions and services, as well as successful use cases with actual customers. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Application I/O Analytics and Optimization
As data centers are often managed by multiple teams, it becomes difficult to determine which team is responsible for certain issues or areas of improvement and thus makes it easy to always blame the other team. Recognizing the need for I/O visibility in the data center, DATAGRES created PerfAccel. As a software-only solution that is installed on the individual application servers, it is fully aware of each and every I/O that occurs from the application servers all the way back to the storage servers and can accelerate application performance with dynamic data placement at the same time. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Flash for All, Bottlenecks for None
Enterprises are widely adopting hyperconverged infrastructure to transform the way they deliver IT services. At the same time, with dropping prices and increasing storage density, we've reached an inflection point that is transforming decisions around all-flash deployments as well Nutanix discusses migrating your mission-critical applications to run on bare-metal or virtualized Oracle and SQL Server to a scale-out all-flash hyperconverged platform. With emerging technologies such as NVMe and 3D XPoint coming into the market, this session will dig into the new realities for enterprise datacenters and ways to deploy flash. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Maximize Microsoft Storage Performance on All-NVMe Next Gen Infrastructure
How can All-Flash NVMe systems address your storage challenges? Get the latest details on the emerging All-Flash products and technologies from Supermicro and Intel. See the configurations and performance details for leading software defined storage solutions from Microsoft on All-Flash NVMe accelerated platforms. Learn how to work with Supermicro and Intel on a custom assessment or proof of concept of All-Flash NVMe Next Generation systems. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Turn your Data Center into your very Own Public Cloud
Companies are actively looking to transform their highly virtualized data center into a dynamic on-premise private cloud that offers the same benefits as the public cloud. Today's dedicated infrastructure offerings fail to address the growing demands and higher service levels needed for today's applications. They lack the advanced capabilities like elastic scale, flexibility, management automation, and usage-based tracking to deliver IT as a Service (ITaaS) for their tenants. In this Webinar, Coho Data discusses how a modern dynamic data center necessitates the need for a modern software-defined infrastructure. – Watch on demand
Blog: Software Defined Storage: A Pillar of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Virtuozzo details how adopting software-defined storage (SDS) as part of a hyperconverged infrastructure solution enables the aggregation of resources, allowing enterprises to meet dynamically changing application workloads. – Read now
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Podcast: Enhancing Storage Scalability and Performance with SUSE and Intel
Sanjeet Singh, Director of Storage Solutions at SUSE discusses the recent release of SUSE Enterprise Storage 5. Sanjeet illustrates how legacy storage products have reached a bottleneck and are unable to scale to meet rapidly growing amounts of data. He discusses how SUSE Enterprise Storage is a software defined storage product that enables customers to tune their data center storage to their exact individual workload needs, significantly reducing cost and providing unlimited scalability. – Listen now
Podcast: Shared Ceph Data Lake for Hadoop/Spark Clusters Accelerated by Intel
Brent Compton, Senior Director of Storage Solution Architectures at Red Hat, and Brien Porter, Senior Program Manager for Storage Solutions at Intel, discuss software defined storage solutions for enterprises. Brien and Brent talk about their focus on making Spark, Hadoop, and Ceph work better on Intel hardware and helping enterprises scale efficiently. – Listen now
Podcast: How E8 Storage is Accelerating Cloud Based Services with Intel
Julie Herd, Director of Technical Marketing at E8 Storage, highlights the storage performance E8 Storage is delivering with the Intel® SSD Data Center Family with NVM Express* (NVMe*). Julie discusses how E8 Storage built a new architecture specifically for Intel SSDs with NVMe, which allows them to deliver extremely high flash storage performance to cloud service providers, while remaining reliable and available. – Listen now
Podcast: Build a Self-Driving Storage Infrastructure with ProphetStor
Brian Huang, Senior Director of ProphetStor, discusses ProphetStor's advancements in self-driving storage infrastructure technology. ProphetStor recently announced their new product called datacenter.ai, which is an AI product that can be used to predict disk failure and storage server performance. Brian explains the benefits of a more agile, automated, and intelligent storage infrastructure, and how both enterprise and cloud services data centers can utilize this technology. – Listen now
Podcast: Maxta: The Power of Hyperconvergence Software
Arjun Narang, Product Manager at Maxta, joins this episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Maxta's hyperconvergence software. Maxta is a software company that unites compute and storage devices, with a VM-centric focus. Arjun explains the benefits of software and VM-centric hyperconvergence and how Maxta is taking advantage of the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and has seen a significant improvement in performance. – Listen now
Webinar: Top Your Data Center Storage Tiers with NVMe
Charlie Fei, Product Manager discusses when and why you should accelerate your hot data by placing NVMe in the 1st tier of your data center storage. Charlie introduces some unique NVMe server solutions designed and manufactured by AIC, explain the benefits of NVMe storage and also provide an overview of storage tiers. – Watch on demand
Webinar: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: Intel-powered Ultra-Performance
Get a first-hand look into how utilizing StarWind HyperConverged Appliance, powered by Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family and Intel SSD Data Center Family. This pairing will allow you to reap the benefits of NVMe over Fabrics, resulting in amazing performance. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Kaminario's Perpetual Array Facilitates Adoption of New Intel Technology
The Kaminario K2 all-flash array has the unique ability, called Perpetual Array, to scale, both up and out, and mix & match storage media and controllers. With Intel driving new CPU technologies and introducing new types of storage media such as 3DXpoint, Kaminario’s Perpetual Array allows the adoption of Intel’s innovation. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Real World Guidance for Implementing VMware Virtual SAN on NVMe
VMware's Virtual SAN 6.2 adds new capabilities that dramatically change the value of hyper-converged infrastructure for broad scale deployment. If you are considering hyper converged infrastructure, learn more from Intel and Supermicro engineers on best design practices for Virtual SAN in an All-Flash NVMe from pre-configured and pre-certified Ready Nodes to certified components that can be leveraged to design your own system for varying workload requirements. – Watch on demand
Webinar: How Zadara Storage keeps You Agile in Uncertain Times
In times of uncertainty, it is vital to be flexible and agile to adapt to unexpected changes in your requirements. Having the ability to respond to both increases and decreases in IT requirements - without breaking your budget will determine who succeeds and who doesn't. Learn from Bob Sarubbi and Doug Jury of Zadara Storage how you can implement an “immortal storage solution” with the flexibility, scalability, and agility of the cloud while enjoying economics of pay-as-you-go Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS). – Watch on demand
Webinar: Decoupling Storage from Compute in Apache Hadoop with Ceph
Intel and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) partnered to create a block storage solution that delivers multi-tenancy, workload flexibility, and massive scalability utilizing Ceph. Using a Hadoop workload, Ceph was optimized to provide backend storage solution. To provide the performance needed to disaggregate Hadoop storage, a hybrid deployment of Intel Solid State Drives with NVMe and HDDs where performance is optimized with Intel® Cache Acceleration Software. – Watch on demand
Webinar: True Enterprise Class Centralized NVMe Storage from E8 Storage
E8 Storage recently announced their centralized NVMe storage solution, the E8 D24, using Intel dual-ported SSDs. E8 Storage is the first vendor to bring to the market a true enterprise class centralized storage array using dual-ported Intel drives. This solution provides amazing performance (up to 10M IOPS in a 2U form factor) and Enterprise class storage features such as controller and path failover (made possible by using Intel dual-ported SSDs). – Watch on demand
Webinar: Intel NVMe SSD supercharges Windows Server 2016 Hyper-Converged
DataON and Intel maximize the performance of Windows Server 2016 thanks to Intel's NVMe SSD and DataON's Hyper-Converged Cluster Appliance platform. NVMe SSD based storage offers 3X read and 1.5X write performance when compared to traditional SSDs, making it an innovative choice for those looking to push the bounds of their data centers. Intel's latest enterprise NVMe SSD offering empowers high IO performance for EVGA's IOP intensive enterprise applications demanding in-memory applications. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Flexible Offering of Enterprise Software-Defined Solutions
The webinar will discuss what Supermicro-Nexenta has to offer in the software defined storage space, all of the Nexenta software features, Supermicro total solutions and services, as well as successful use cases with actual customers. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Application I/O Analytics and Optimization
As data centers are often managed by multiple teams, it becomes difficult to determine which team is responsible for certain issues or areas of improvement and thus makes it easy to always blame the other team. Recognizing the need for I/O visibility in the data center, DATAGRES created PerfAccel. As a software-only solution that is installed on the individual application servers, it is fully aware of each and every I/O that occurs from the application servers all the way back to the storage servers and can accelerate application performance with dynamic data placement at the same time. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Flash for All, Bottlenecks for None
Enterprises are widely adopting hyperconverged infrastructure to transform the way they deliver IT services. At the same time, with dropping prices and increasing storage density, we've reached an inflection point that is transforming decisions around all-flash deployments as well Nutanix discusses migrating your mission-critical applications to run on bare-metal or virtualized Oracle and SQL Server to a scale-out all-flash hyperconverged platform. With emerging technologies such as NVMe and 3D XPoint coming into the market, this session will dig into the new realities for enterprise datacenters and ways to deploy flash. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Maximize Microsoft Storage Performance on All-NVMe Next Gen Infrastructure
How can All-Flash NVMe systems address your storage challenges? Get the latest details on the emerging All-Flash products and technologies from Supermicro and Intel. See the configurations and performance details for leading software defined storage solutions from Microsoft on All-Flash NVMe accelerated platforms. Learn how to work with Supermicro and Intel on a custom assessment or proof of concept of All-Flash NVMe Next Generation systems. – Watch on demand
Webinar: Turn your Data Center into your very Own Public Cloud
Companies are actively looking to transform their highly virtualized data center into a dynamic on-premise private cloud that offers the same benefits as the public cloud. Today's dedicated infrastructure offerings fail to address the growing demands and higher service levels needed for today's applications. They lack the advanced capabilities like elastic scale, flexibility, management automation, and usage-based tracking to deliver IT as a Service (ITaaS) for their tenants. In this Webinar, Coho Data discusses how a modern dynamic data center necessitates the need for a modern software-defined infrastructure. – Watch on demand
Blog: Software Defined Storage: A Pillar of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Virtuozzo details how adopting software-defined storage (SDS) as part of a hyperconverged infrastructure solution enables the aggregation of resources, allowing enterprises to meet dynamically changing application workloads. – Read now
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