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Smarter storage starts with analytics
This article is part of the Storage issue of April 2017, Vol. 16, No. 2
The amount of data available to today's enterprise is staggering. Yet the race to collect and mine even more data to gain competitive insight, deeply optimize business processes and better inform strategic decision-making is accelerating. Fueled by these new data-intensive capabilities, traditional enterprise business applications primarily focused on operational transactions are now quickly converging with advanced big data analytics to help organizations grow increasingly (albeit artificially) intelligent. To help IT keep pace with data-intensive business applications that are now embedding operational analytics, data center infrastructure is also evolving rapidly. In-memory computing, massive server-side flash, software-defined resources and scale-out platforms are a few of the recent growth areas reshaping today's data centers. In particular, we are seeing storage infrastructure, long considered the slow-changing anchor of the data center, transforming faster than ever. You might say that we're seeing smarter storage. Modern...
Features in this issue
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Flash, cloud top data storage options for storage pros
Cloud is popular among data storage priorities for primary and backup storage, while most say they will use flash in primary data storage.
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Purchase of NAS arrays driven by need for capacity, desire to expand
As unstructured data continues to lead storage growth, businesses are opting for scale-out NAS arrays to handle current and future capacity.
Columns in this issue
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Secondary data storage takes center stage
Once considered a necessary evil, secondary storage systems are now providing much more than just backup protection.
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Essential elements of copy data management
The next chapter written in the book of computer science should be all about management of copy data, the core function of IT.