JetStor Supports Hope - Children of Ukraine Initiative JetStor is pleased to support the Hope - Children of Ukraine initiative which was launched three years ago and is dedicated to aiding children affected by the war in Ukraine. Its mission is to create positive...
JetStor's Gene Layzarovich sits down with Great Things with Great Tech to talk everything from the company's RAID beginnings to an AI-driven future. Preparing for future challenges with AI data demands.In this GTwGT episode, we focus on JetStor's long and interesting...
JetStor is pleased to announce that they have been named as a finalist for the Tech 50 by the Pittsburgh Technology Council. The Pittsburgh Technology Council's Tech 50 Awards honors technology innovation in the region. On Thursday, November 16, 2023, the most...
Virtualization began in the 1960s, but we can jump ahead several decades to the proliferation of desktop computing and enterprise applications. Applications then were monolithic. Each resided on its own physical server with an operating system and all executable components. This ensured that if an application crashed, it didn’t affect applications on other servers.
What Is SAP? | AC&NC AC&NC is a leading provider of technology and data storage solutions for businesses of all sizes. With years of experience in the industry, we specialize in providing expert guidance on SAP technology....
AC&NC offers a range of services and data storage solutions to help organizations design, implement, and manage their digital infrastructure, including installation, configuration, and support services. Read more about open-source databases in our guide. What Is...
QLC vs. TLC SSDs - which SSD is better for your needs? Learn more about QLC and TLC, how they differ, their disadvantages and advantages, and the price. AC&NC has a host of data storage solutions to meet your needs. QLCs (Quad-Level Cells) and TLCs (Triple-Level...
ACNC is a leading provider of high-quality data storage solutions for businesses of all sizes. You will find a wide range of storage products, including Quad-Level Cell Solid-state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives (HDDs), and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Our...
Storage Solutions: NVMe Explained If you don’t need NVMe now, you eventually will. Do you want to learn more about NVMe and how this access and transfer protocol for flash and solid-state drives (SSDs) offers the highest throughput and fastest response times, making...
AC&NC has a host of storage solutions for your business, including SSDs. Solid-state drives, or SSDs, have revolutionized data storage with faster access speeds and more efficient power usage than traditional hard disk drives (HDDs). Though not all are created...
Are you in need of extra space for your digital files, photos, or videos? Direct-attached storage (DAS) devices may be just the solution you need! At AC&NC we have a variety of these devices to meet your storage solutions needs. What is Direct-Attached Storage?...
JBOD and RAID: What is the difference and what are the similarities between the systems? At AC&NC, we have storage solutions to fit all your storage needs. We’ll help you sort out the features of each and which is the best fit for your business. What is a JBOD...
If you don’t need NVMe now, you eventually will. Storage is all about data—saving and retrieving information. For years, hard drives comprised of spinning disks met both business and consumer needs for preserving data. However, applications grow larger and more...
From DAS to NAS to SANs: the Evolution of Storage Configurations A refresher course on the different configurations for storage can be useful. In the old days, things were simpler, though they didn’t seem so at the time. There was just direct-attached storage or DAS....
How do solid-state drives (SSDs) stack up to traditional hard-disk drives? Like many things in life, it depends on money and what you need. SSDs deliver greater performance than HDDs, especially faster, more predictable read times. SSD performance will only increase...
One of the origin stories of the personal computing revolution was how Bill Gates saw that the future lay in software while IBM still fixated on hardware. The result was the highly lucrative coupling of Microsoft’s operating system with personal computers. Gate’s...
Distributed storage arose to meet a growing array of needs confronting enterprises. We’ve long known that data is the lifeblood of our businesses. Leveraging data is how we prosper and grow. Yet, how do we keep our data safe and private? We need to safeguard our...
As the IT environment evolves, meeting storage needs demands new strategies. In the old days, most enterprise data was generated on-site and centrally stored in the data center. The edge of the network was defined by firewalls and was limited to the physical confines...
As the IT environment evolves, meeting storage needs demands new strategies. In the old days, most enterprise data was generated on-site and centrally stored in the data center. The edge of the network was defined by firewalls and was limited to the physical confines...
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Serverless Computing vs Containers Serverless storage falls under the rubric of a relatively new technology known as serverless computing. Serverless computing doesn’t replace containers, any more than containers replaced virtual machines (VMs). They all have their...
It’s the end of the year and time to let 2021 inform us as to what we might expect in 2022. We’re leaving another year that disrupted how we conduct business and store and process data. Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, more employees at both large and...
Few predicted the events and tumult of 2020 and few predict how 2021 will finally shape up, but when it comes to storage-related developments, there’s a bit more clarity. Here are some forecasts for data storage trends of 2021 and beyond. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...
Much has been said about today’s “new normal.” Life and commerce are certainly disrupted, but not everything has changed. Data continue to be generated every day and are still foundational to business success. Even in these times, there’s a lot more data today than...
All-Flash vs Hybrid Storage: Unraveling the Differences Data Storage is a critical component of the MSP infrastructure. The storage must deliver high performance efficient capacity utilization and scale easily. It must have a modular design and scalability to enable...
The new year is a time for renewed hope and optimism. What can we expect in 2020? NVMe Finally Arrives Although anticipated for years, the widespread adoption of NVMe is finally happening. NVMe helps to unlock the potential of SSDs, but SSDs are only recently becoming...
2019 is upon us, which means it’s time to take note of trends in the storage industry. Here are five worth considering. NVMe over Fabrics is hot! Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) greatly speeds communications between a host and solid-state storage. It replaces SCSI,...
Like the Internet of Things, machine learning (ML) and its more august sibling, artificial intelligence (AI), are upon us. The former is impacting business and IT operations, and the latter will impact nearly all of society. When most of us think of them, we envision...
Last month’s blog addressed edge computing and how it supports the Internet of Things. Now, let’s look a bit further into the storage demands of IoT. IoT storage can’t possibly be covered in a blog, but here are some thoughts. We’ve all been introduced to an...
There are already many billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the business, consumer, civic, science, and industrial sectors. They’re scattered across the planet in assembly lines, vehicles, hospitals, cities, homes, environments, and even our clothing. They...
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), also known as desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), has been widely adopted. VDI simplifies IT management and backups, facilitates security, and reduces hardware and operating costs. VMware, Citrix, Amazon, Parallels, and others offer VDI...
A story published on GeekWire should make many organizations rethink their storage strategies. It recounts how DropBox bucked industry trends by moving its popular file-storage service away from the cloud—AWS’s S3 storage service—to its own infrastructure...
FLASH IS STILL HOT Let’s look further into trending storage technologies. Of course, a sea change has been the adoption of solid-state drives (SSDs). First generation SSDs improved performance and lowered power consumption over their mechanical counterparts, but were...
Once upon a time, enterprises bought the components needed to deliver IT services, cobbled them together, and with a little sweat and aggravation, got them to work. Demands for more robust services prompted companies to turn to best-of-breed solutions, but this...
Storage has always been a primary reason why companies turn to cloud computing. Clouds are ideal for backing up data and storing archival data. This is underscored by the advent of object storage, which makes vast data stores practical. Over time, providers offered...
Managed service providers (MSPs) need to offer fast, affordable storage. Storage is a perennial concern for enterprises of all sizes, and many are considering offloading their storage to reduce costs and headaches. But to win storage business, MSPs face formidable...
For years, the storage business had been reasonably stable. Primary storage was local and backed-up data were nearby or at remote sites along with archived data. Production files were rapidly accessible, and governance and compliance demands were more or less met. The...
If your organization is not utilizing some form of a cloud, the odds are it soon will. Your question will be what kind cloud—public, private, or hybrid? Private clouds can be dedicated clouds provided by vendors in which no resources are shared by any other customer....
How do solid-state drives (SSDs) stack up to traditional hard-disk drives? Like many things in life, it depends on money and what you need. SSDs deliver greater performance than HDDs, especially faster, more predictable read times. SSD performance will only increase...
For years, the world relied on hard disk drives (HDDs) to store digital information. These electro-magnetic devices worked well and their costs per gigabyte continually decreased. However, they had inherent performance constraints because of the time they required to...
At the beginning of every year, it’s customary to pull out the crystal ball and project trends for the new year. Often, however, promising solutions fail to catch on because of reasons like their technologies are not yet mature or economics still favor other strategies. With that said, below are some trends that we’re confident are good bets for 2017.
The evolution of flash drives is inevitable. Like other disruptive technologies, it offers substantial advantages over legacy solutions—in this case, spinning disks—but its initial costs limited its adoption to such enterprise applications as high-speed transactional...
Networked-attached storage (NAS) remains a sound strategy for delivering applications and shared storage, especially for enterprises that seek to avoid the costs and complexities of storage-area networks (SANs).
OpenStack is a viable solution for many enterprise data centers. OpenStack is a free, open-source software platform that enables organizations to construct and manage public and private clouds. Its components manage processing, networking, and storage on hardware...
RAID has long been a mainstay of data protection. RAID protects against data loss from bad blocks or bad disks by either mirroring data on multiple disks in a storage array or adding parity blocks to the data, which allows for the recovery of failed blocks. Now...
File- and block-based storage are well established, but a third alternative, object storage, is hardly new technology. Today, there are countless petabytes of object storage in public clouds, and hundreds of millions of Facebook, Google, and Twitter users routinely...
It’s the start of a new year and time for pundits to predict what we can expect in the storage market going forward. Let’s touch upon some of the more prominent trends. SSDs versus HDDs Foremost, of course, is the inexorable adoption of SSDs by both the consumer and...
The evolution of yesteryear’s grainy, black and white televisions to today’s dazzling high-definition monitors confirms that we prefer our content displayed in higher resolution. This is why filmmakers and videographers are starting to shoot in 4K, which offers four...
Hyperconvergence is a relatively new technology paradigm that has been garnering attention. To understand hyperconvergence, consider traditional and converged IT infrastructures. The traditional infrastructure is comprised of server, storage, and networking systems,...
Suppose you run a media production company that generates large multimedia data files. Your data trove grows daily, demanding very scalable storage. What are your options? A storage area network (SAN) is one, but you don’t want the costs and complexities of building...
Before choosing a software solution for your business, it’s important that you first decide what exactly you want to receive from the product that you are paying for. Surely, in your search for a storage solution, you’ve come across the term “RAID” or a “Redundant...
If you plan on investing time and money into developing a video editing career, or if your business requires a lot of video editing, choosing the correct video storage server is essential to your success. But when outfitting your employees with the right software is...
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage system which connects to a computer network and then provides data access. NAS can enable simpler and lower cost systems such as load-balancing and fault-tolerant email and web server systems by...
With the emergence of SSD arrays, businesses are starting to question the more traditional HDD arrays that have been standard storage solutions for decades. And with the ever-growing presence of critical data across countless industries, it’s no wonder that the more...
They’ve both become commonly used storage solutions for businesses of all sizes; and while NAS (Network Attached Storage) sales have exploded over the past couple of years, JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives) still adequately meets many storage demands depending on business...
Flash storage is the biggest thing in the industry, and rightfully so. With the advances in solid-state drive (SSD) technology and the emergence of all flash storage arrays boasting drastic increases in performance, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for decision...
JetStor attended the annual VMUG User Conference for Western PA on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. The all-day event was held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Downtown Pittsburgh hosting a mix of VMware partners, customers, and employees. The event was kicked...
AC&NC and StorTrends partnered to host a Lunch n’ Learn event at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Pittsburgh, PA on February 24, 2015. Guests were treated to a full-course lunch and presentation centered on the newly released StorTrends 3600i All Flash Storage Array. ...
AC&NC is pleased to announce that it is a value-added dealer for the terrific, new StorTrends 3600i all-flash storage array. The 16-bay solution uniquely leverages the strengths of solid-state drives (SSDs) by utilizing drives optimized for write I/O on a write...
Capitalize on the best of both SSDs and hard-drive disks (HDDs) with the versatile, function-rich JetStor SAS 724iFD arrays. SSDs are much faster than HDDs whereas spinning disks are more capacious and economical per gigabyte (although SSD costs continue to drop). The...
As the capacity of HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) continues to expand, the response speed of this traditional storage technology hasn't kept up with the times. In recent years, random input/output (I/O) technology has only experienced marginal advancement in...
Some systems are closed and proprietary while others are open and free. A fine example of the latter is OpenStack, a set of free, open-source software tools for building and managing very scalable public and private clouds. OpenStack enables organizations of all...
According to Wikipedia’s definition, “object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy and block storage which...
A solid state drive, or SSD, is a data storage device that can have a huge impact on your system’s performance—even more than getting a new computer that runs on a hard drive. Unlike a hard drive, SSDs have no moving parts. SSDs are designed for storage and have quite...
Data has always faced two problems: how to protect it and how to store it. Technology has advanced so that there are several affordable and easy to implement solutions to both storing data and sharing data. The two most common ways to share storage are: iSCSI Storage...
HYBRID FLASH STORAGE IT departments are struggling to keep up with the massive growth in data as well as the complexity in the types of data stored. From digital text files, to videos to machine-generated data, a storage solution has to be able to handle not just the...
Big data is commonly perceived as large data sets comprised of multitudinous small files. Often, however, big data’s data sets contain files that are relatively few in number, but very large in size. This is particularly true for companies in such businesses as video...
The Internet Protocol, simply known as IP, is easily the most widely used networking standard on Earth. The technology is well proven, familiar to IT staffs, and affordable. IP is common within corporate networking infrastructures, except when it comes to storing...
RAID gets all the attention nowadays, but there’s still a place for RAID’s less talented cousin, JBOD. Both are comprised of multiple physical drives, so what’s the difference? Relying on storage virtualization, RAID, or redundant array of inexpensive/independent...
Every day, companies generate or acquire more data, often at alarming rates. This data needs to be stored on disks or eventually tape. Reliable data storage is not cheap, however, especially when ancillary costs like electricity, cooling, maintenance, and floor space...
One consequence of “big data” is high-performance computing is creeping into the enterprise space. High-performance computing, known as HPC, was once confined to scientific and engineering endeavors that require immense number crunching, such as modeling weather...
Most people by now have a sense of what clouds are. When IT services and resources are hosted offsite somewhere else, they are often in clouds. But clouds have certain characteristics that define them, as opposed to simple offsite hosting. Clouds are elastic in that...
Enterprises generate vast volumes of data every day and they need to extract business value from this information. However, data troves are so huge that traditional business intelligence tools like relational databases and math packages are no longer effective. What...
Definitions of big data, like those of clouds, vary, but at its essence big data is simply very big data sets. How big is relative. On one extreme, big science initiatives like the Large Hadron Collider or global climate studies routinely produce data sets that are...
Cost-conscious storage administrators will want to note a feature in Windows Server 2012, popularly known as "Windows Server 8,” called Resilient File System (ReFS). Working with Storage Space, another Windows Server 2012 feature that provides data protection similar...
Organizations generate more and more data every day, much of which must be stored for varying amounts of time. Fortunately, technologies have emerged over the years to help address this storage problem. These range from iSCSI SANs and 10 gigabit connectivity to data...
As server and storage virtualization find their way into even small data centers, organizations are now considering virtualizing desktops, known as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). VDI offers tangible advantages. Because operating systems and applications are...
Much has been written about big data—the rapidly growing troves of unstructured and structured data than need to be stored continuously and securely. What doesn't get as much attention is an adjunct of big data. This is the huge amounts of video data that are...
RAID arrays are ideal for video editing servers. Video editors have two pressing needs, performance and redundancy. RAID Arrays Offer Extraordinary Performance for Video Editors One is performance. Video files, particularly with sound tracks, are very large and have...
In the 1990's, when direct-attached storage (DAS) was the prevalent mode of file storage, network-attached storage (NAS) was introduced to support file sharing across enterprise networks. Vendors merged Sun Microsystems’ open source NFS protocol and NFS file server...
For decades, RAID solutions have been a mainstay storage strategy for enterprises of all sizes, from small shops to large corporations. A relatively early example of storage virtualization, RAID systems cohere multiple disk drives into a single logical unit, thereby...
We’ve been discussing some of the functionality and capabilities of state-of-the-art iSCSI RAID solutions. Leading solutions now provide SATA or SAS connectivity and are ideal for network NAS applications and iSCSI RAID or Fibre Channel (FC) SANs. Unified iSCSI RAID...
Since its origins dating as far back as 1988, RAID has been a mainstay strategy for protecting and delivering data. The principle is simple; treat multiple drives as a single logical unit to either accelerate reads and writes or ensure no data loss should a drive (or...
“Big data” is a widely used term in the IT business and what it means depends on who’s doing the talking. It can mean one thing for the business analytics crowd and another for the storage people. However, the bottom line is “big data” refers to the fact that...
Last month, we introduced solid state storage arrays, which use flash memory drives in traditional hard-drive form factors, and this month, we will explore some of their applications. Solid state storage arrays are the next-generation solution for the rapid storage...
Many innovations are improving the performance and efficiencies of network storage, such as data tiering and deduplication, but none are as far-reaching as the emergence of solid state storage drives (SSDs). solid state storage drives (SSDs) deliver a leap forward as...
Shared iSCSI storage typically refers to a shared network drive for a group of people to access. Businesses these days are into shared iSCSI storage for data sharing and recovery. This type of iSCSI storage platform allows everyone to access the same file, given all...
Cloud storage is making its way to everyone who uses the internet. This backup storage utilizes the most modern means of storing your files. This type of cloud storage is accessed through a web-based interface wherein you can readily access your files anytime,...
The cardinal rule when using a computer is to save. Hitting the control plus “s” button is a must every time you encode and update your file. It is therefore, important to have a reliable backup storage to store all your data. Our computer is built with a dependable...
The buzz word today is cloud storage. Anywhere you go; you can hear almost everyone mentioning it, whether to backup storage is for computer data or mobile phone information. This online storage allows you to store your data for free for life. The need to backup your...