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The Storage Architecture Spectrum: Why “Shared-nothing” Means Nothing

Pure Storage

Yet these two systems couldn’t be farther from each other on the spectrum of complexity, resiliency, and capability, and very few would question the scalability of Cloud Spanner. Almost as impressive, when it launched in 2017, the first FlashBlade system supported a maximum of 120TB of flash.

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Uncovering Dell EMC’s PowerStore B.S. (Bogus Statements)

Pure Storage

OK, how about some other areas where we can see differentiation from previous models, such as in data resiliency? What is also interesting is that Unity XT calls RAID “dynamic pools,” where PowerStore calls it “Dynamic Resiliency Engine.” Resource Balancer only uses capacity-free space to determine where to place the new volume.¹³

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AIRI//S Recognized as Best AI Solution for Big Data

Pure Storage

According to McKinsey , adoption of AI has doubled from 2017 to 2022. FlashBlade//S handles it all—from workloads that require the highest levels of flash performance to capacity-optimized disk-based ones that call for hybrid density and efficiency. We’re humbled to rise to the top with over 3,000 submissions that were considered.

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Dell’s Mid-Range PowerStore Conundrum 

Pure Storage

Later generations of Symmetrix were even bigger and supported more drives with more capacity, more data features, and better resiliency. . Other vendors brought storage products to market touting “enterprise class” with better features and resiliency. Later, the industry started utilizing storage-area networks (SANs).

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. Again, the devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean in 2017 can be seen as part of this change.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. Again, the devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean in 2017 can be seen as part of this change.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. 90 programs across 20 agencies is simply too many.