Storage in the New Year: Our take on the Storage Newsletter 2023 Predictions Panel

Storage in the New Year: Our take on the Storage Newsletter 2023 Predictions Panel

Every year, those in the storage industry look forward to Philippe Nicolas’s Storage Newsletter’s Predictions of Storage Vendors for trends and new ideas in the storage space. With input from most of the major players in the industry, it is a great barometer of not just where storage is going, but also how those in the know are

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What it Really Means to be Software Defined

What it Really Means to be Software Defined

This post first appeared in the Container Journal [https://containerjournal.com/features/what-it-means-to-be-truly-software-defined/] . The term “software-defined storage” is widely misunderstood by the vendor community. While analysts, both industry and financial, know that software-defined is both the present and future of the storage industry, customers who are unable to make the distinction may find themselves with a hardware- or appliance-based solution

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The Scalability Myth

The Scalability Myth

Lots of object storage companies like to talk about scalability while tossing around terms like exabytes and “infinite.” Unfortunately, many of the terms used to describe scalability make grandiose and misleading promises that don’t help enterprises build an effective storage platform. Claims made around the simplest use case,  static archival data, aren’t translatable to the entirety of use

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Three Things You Need at Scale

Three Things You Need at Scale

MinIO was designed in the same fashion that the hyper-scalers were – with simple building blocks that limit failure domains but can grow infinitely. Still there are some features that you really need to have in order to go galactic in size. They are: 1. Server Side Replication: With MinIO’s server side replication capabilities, organizations can create active-active replication [https:

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Comparing Software Defined Storage with Appliances

Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” [https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/] to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company. This is

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