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Industry Brief: Best Linux for SAP On-Premises and in AWS
SAP and SUSE A Shared Vision Since the Last Millennium To fully understand how SUSE became the #1 operating system (OS) for SAP, on-premises and in the cloud,we need to start with a short trip into the past, to Germany. In 1972, five entrepreneurs in Germany (Dietmar...
Industry’s First Petabyte-Scale On-Prem STaaS
From Gigabyte-Scale to Petabyte-Scale StorageIT Brand Pulse defines petabyte-scale storage simply as “systems designed specifically to deliver high-performance and availability in multi-petabyte environments.”In 1987, Infinidat founder and CEO Moshe Yanai led the...
NVMe over RoCE for Noobs
Today Pure Storage is the first major storage vendor to announce availability of NVMe over RoCE Fabrics. While users at nearly 100% of businesses use some type of networked storage, IT Brand Pulse estimates that less than 1% of IT organizations are using...
3 Hottest Trends in Flash Storage
Persistent Memory, NVMe over Fabrics and Hybrid Cloud Storage The 3 hottest trends these storage IT leaders are considering are flash storage in hybrid clouds, NVMe flash fabrics and persistent memory in AFAs. Watch this webinar to learn about the:...
AWS #3 Storage Vendor Today, #1 in 2020
There's a lot of data published every day about the revenue and growth rate of the enterprise storage vendors, and about the overall growth rate for public cloud Infrastructure-as-as-Service (Iaas) providers. But to the best of our knowledge, no one has...
Pure Storage Introduces Storage-as-as-Service
There's a New Class of STaaS That Changes Everything While the revenue of incumbent leaders flatlined during the last 5 years, Pure Storage led an assault on legacy technologies and methods of delivering enterprise storage. Pure's fresh approach including...
The Pendulum Swings Back to Shared Storage for VMware ESXi
The Storage Pendulum (Download Report) The Migration from DAS to Networked Storage Driven by Higher Utilization The use of enterprise-class NAS and SAN storage systems went mainstream at the turn of the millennium. By 2000, IT organizations were...
Comparing the Cost of EMC Centera and HPE/SUSE/iTernity Compliance Archive Solutions
The following are results of a total cost of ownership study. The report includes actual price quotes for compliance archive solutions from Dell EMC and HPE/SUSE /iTernity. The study analyzes the cost of hardware, software and support for 500TB of storage, growing 25%...
Backing Up Mountains of Data to Disk
5 Year Total Cost of Ownership Case Study The following are the results of an IT Brand Pulse total cost of ownership study. The report includes actual price quotes from SAN solutions from EMC, IBM, and NetApp, compared with five software-defined storage solutions from...
A New Generation of Backup & Recovery for Distributed Databases
A Disturbance in The Force On June 7, 2016, Datos IO announced the general availability of RecoverX, the industry's first enterprise-class backup and recovery software for applications running on distributed cloud databases. With capabilities such as scalable...
On Premise as a Service: Like Leasing, Only Better
Zadara Storage was recently voted by IT pros as the brand leader in the emerging market for on premise enterprise storage as a service (OPaaS). Validating the importance of OPaaS, Microsoft yesterday announced an on premise offering for Azure. Zadara, Microsoft and...
On Premise Giants and AWS Trade Blows in IT Brand Leader Surveys
IT Brand Pulse recently completed two rounds of annual brand leader surveys covering 7 types of products which are available for deployment on-premise, or as a cloud service. For each product, data center IT pros were asked who they perceived as market, price,...
Industry First: SUSE Introduces CephFS
CephFS Unlocks Universal Software Defined Storage SUSE Enterprise Storage is based on Ceph, an open-source platform designed to provide storage from a highly-scalable, high-availability, cluster environment. The foundation of Ceph is the Reliable Autonomic Distributed...