Scaling Up or Scaling Out: Making the Right Storage Architecture Decision

Rob Strechay, principal analyst at theCUBE Research, is joined by Paul McLeod, senior field application engineer at Super Micro Computer; Iyer Venkatesan, solutions marketing manager at Intel; Jason Zimmerman, director of applications engineering at Seagate Technology; Anders Graham, director of marketing and business development for SSDs at Kioxia America; Steven Umbehocker, founder and CEO of OSNexus; and Thomas Paquette, SVP and GM of the Americas and EMEA at Graid Technology, during the Supermicro Open Storage Summit, powered by Supermicro, Intel, AMD and Nvidia.

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Their discussion contrasts scale-up and scale-out storage architectures, emphasizing their roles in modern IT environments. Scale-up focuses on adding resources to a single system for higher availability, while scale-out expands horizontally by adding nodes to handle increasing data needs. Companies must choose based on their workload, performance requirements and scalability demands, with AI and machine learning applications often favoring scale-out for its performance.

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Technology advancements, such as offload engines and RAID acceleration, improve storage efficiency, security and cost savings. Leading vendors like Super Micro, Intel and Seagate collaborate to provide flexible, high-performance storage solutions tailored to various enterprise needs.

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