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  • Benefits and uses of all-flash storage in the M&E workflow

    Benefits and uses of all-flash storage in the M&E workflow

    Introduction The advantage that Flash-based storage in general, and NVMe in particular brings to the M&E workflow is the ability to disconnect the scaling of performance from the scaling of capacity.  This can be used to patch non-optimal workflows (valid use of the technology when done intentionally) but it can also be used to deliver…

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  • Understanding the Cost of EBS Snapshots

    Understanding the Cost of EBS Snapshots

    It’s Simple It’s simple, just go to the EBS Pricing page. You’ll find some answers here but you might be left still wondering about a few things. It shows that Standard Snapshots are $0.05/GB/month in us-east-1 (we’ll discuss Archive Snapshots in a later post). It also states that “EBS Snapshots in the Standard tier are stored incrementally,…

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  • Introducing Cloud & Clear

    Introducing Cloud & Clear

    A Brief History of System Deployment In technology, systems proliferate. They didn’t always, at least not at today’s pace. Deploying a new system used to be a physical process. It would require approval throughout the organization. You had to consult the data center manager, the network team, finance, and procurement. It required planning and took…

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  • Qumulo Shift – File to Object in One Easy Leap

    Qumulo Shift – File to Object in One Easy Leap

    Shift is free software feature available in Qumulo’s QFS to replicate native file data to an AWS S3 object storage format.

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