Achieving Data Literacy
Understanding the NVMe Key-Value Standard
Compression Puts the Squeeze on Storage
Optimizing NVMe over Fabrics Performance with Different Ethernet Transports: Host Factors
Take 10 – Watch a Computational Storage Trilogy
We’re all busy these days, and the thought of scheduling even more content to watch can be overwhelming. Great technical content – especially from the SNIA Educational Library – delivers what you need to know, but often it needs to be consumed in long chunks. Perhaps it’s time to shorten the content so you have more freedom to watch.
With the tremendous interest in computational storage, SNIA is on the forefront of standards development – and education. The SNIA Computational Storage Special Interest Group (CS SIG) has just produced a video trilogy – informative, packed with detail, and consumable in under 10 minutes!
Data Reduction: Don’t Be Too Proud to Ask
Think your Backup is Your Archive? Think Again!
The challenges of archiving structured and unstructured data
Traditionally, organizations had two electronic storage technologies: disk and tape. Whilst disk became the primary storage media, tape offered a cost-effective media to store infrequently accessed contents.
This led organizations to consider tape as not just a backup media but as the organization’s archive which then resulted in using monthly full system backups over extended durations to support archiving requirements.
Over time, legislative and regulatory bodies began to accept extended time delays for inquiries and investigations caused by tape restore limitations.
Since the beginning of this century, the following trends have impacted the IT industry:
- Single disk drive capacity has grown exponentially to multi-TB delivering cost effective performance levels.
- The exponential growth of unstructured data due to the introduction of social media networks, Internet of Things, etc. have exceeded all planned growth.
- The introduction of cloud storage (storage as a service) that offer an easy way to acquire storage services with incremental investment that fits any organization’s financial planning at virtually infinite scalability.
A Q&A on Protecting Data-at-Rest
Standards Watch: Blockchain Storage
Is there a standard for Blockchain today? Not really. What we are attempting to do is to build one.
Since 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto’s White Paper was published and Bitcoin emerged, we have been learning about a new solution using a decentralized ledger and one of its applications: Blockchain.
Wikipedia defines Blockchain as follows: “A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree).”
There are certain drawbacks which are significant in today’s applications for Blockchain solutions:
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