Tag: Cloud Storage

Storage Life on the Edge

Tom Friend Leave a comment

Cloud to Edge infrastructures are rapidly growing.  It is expected that by 2025, up to 75% of all data generated will be created at the Edge.  However, Edge is a tricky word and you’ll get a different definition depending on who you ask. The physical edge could be in a factory, retail store, hospital, car, plane, cell tower level, or on your mobile device. The network edge could be a top-of-rack switch, server running host-based networking, or 5G base station.

The Edge means putting servers, storage, and other devices outside the core data center and closer to both the data sources and the users of that data—both edge sources and edge users could be people or machines.

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Hyperscalers Take on NVMe™ Cloud Storage Questions

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Our recent webcast on how Hyperscalers, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to merge their SSD drive requirements generated a lot of interesting questions. If you missed “How Facebook & Microsoft Leverage NVMe Cloud Storage” you can watch it on-demand. As promised at our live event. Here are answers to the questions we received.

Q. How does Facebook or Microsoft see Zoned Name Spaces being used?

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How Facebook & Microsoft Leverage NVMe™ Cloud Storage

J Metz 1 Comment

What do Hyperscalers like Facebook and Microsoft have in common? Find out in our next SNIA Networking Storage Forum (NSF) webcast, How Facebook and Microsoft Leverage NVMe Cloud Storage, on November 19, 2019 where you’ll hear how these cloud market leaders are using NVMe SSDs in their architectures.

Our expert presenters, Ross Stenfort, Hardware System Engineer at Facebook and Lee Prewitt, Principal Hardware Program Manager, Azure CSI at Microsoft, will provide a close up look into their application requirements and challenges, why they chose NVMe flash for storage, and how they are successfully deploying NVMe to fuel their businesses. You’ll learn:

  • IOPs requirements for Hyperscalers
  • Challenges when managing at scale
  • Issues around form factors
  • Need to allow for “rot in place”
  • Remote debugging requirements
  • Security needs
  • Deployment success factors

I hope you will join us for this look at NVMe in the real world. Our experts will be on-hand to answer your questions during and after the webcast. Register today. We look forward to seeing you on November 19th.