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By: Mike Dilio

November 9, 2018 8:51 pm

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The Data Explosion and Academia. Teaching us all new ways to best utilize Software-defined Storage

Enterprises across the world are facing an uphill struggle with managing their increasing data growth, and academic institutions are no exception. Indeed, many universities face unique challenges in this area. The Challenge is that so many fields of study now generate mountains of data which require ever-growing volumes of storage. Whether it’s physics calculations […]

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By: Mike Dilio

November 8, 2018 8:52 pm

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Six months in and I am l loving it here at SUSE. I am off to Ceph Day Berlin and the OpenStack Summit!

My six month anniversary, how time flies, is fast approaching, November 14 to be exact. And I’ll be at OpenStack Summit in Berlin to celebrate the day. I’ve learned a lot in a short period of time and I’m really excited about heading off to Berlin this coming weekend. I will be […]

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By: Mike Dilio

October 26, 2018 6:00 am

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Stretch Your Storage Dollar: Optimizing HPC at the Value Tier with SUSE Enterprise Storage

Storage systems come in a variety of sizes, shapes and prices, and experts understand that basic parameters such as speed and capacity are only part of the story. The HPC environment places extraordinary demands on the storage system, but economy still matters—any money you save on storage preserves budget that you can then use […]

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By: Mike Dilio

June 26, 2018 6:33 pm

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Artful Tiering – Extending the reach of HPC with SES

Artful Tiering – Extending the reach of HPC with SUSE Enterprise Storage. Have you noticed that everything about the high-performance computing environment is big: hundreds, even thousands of processors generating millions of CPU cycles. And it generates a lot of data. It doesn’t take long to realize that data storage is an important component […]

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By: SUSE

May 14, 2017 4:08 am

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Ceph vs Swift for OpenStack object storage, why the ‘pros vs cons’ approach to evaluation is a flawed analysis

For a casual outside observer there’s a lot in common between Ceph and Swift: they are both open source projects, they have both enjoyed major and ongoing increases in the number of developers actively engaged in improving them, they are both mature, and they both have a legion of fans with serious engineering skills […]

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By: SUSE

April 20, 2017 5:12 am

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University Hospital Essen supports soaring volumes of patient data with SUSE Enterprise Storage

“It usually takes three months to procure, install and configure a new mid-range storage system and migrate data over. Now, we can simply order a new bespoke and tested commodity system from Thomas-Krenn, and add its capacity to the storage pool within days – at 70 to 80 percent lower expenditure.” - Michael […]

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By: SUSE

March 7, 2017 2:00 pm

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Stirred Up About Storage: Why 82% of organizations want to change their approach and move to software-defined storage

According to independent research conducted for SUSE by Loudhouse, a staggering 82% of organizations across the entire world, from Indiana to India and Europe to Eurasia have their approach to storage under the microscope – driven to make changes by the fear that their business’ growth will be choked by rising data volumes. So what’[…]

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By: SUSE

March 1, 2017 7:02 am

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The four things that enterprises hate most about storage

When you think about spending money on your home, you think about things that might make life easier and more enjoyable: the extension on the kitchen that means the entire family can get round the table at Christmas – even the in-laws; the extra bedroom, and the privacy-affording en-suite bathroom. This kind of spending is […]

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By: SUSE

January 10, 2017 5:43 am

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A Frugal Solution for Large Data

SUSE Enterprise Storage Big files and big storage capacities pose big challenges for IT departments. If you work in a Large Data storage environment, you can cut your total storage deployment cost by a factor of three if you use a solution tailored for the Large Data environment: SUSE Enterprise Storage. Large Data is the […]

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