Yearly Archives: 2013

An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore up data is important, having visibility into those…

Tagged with: NetApp, SnapVault, Syncsort, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere, vSphere
Posted in Briefing Note

Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note

CloudBeam Empowers Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics – Attunity’s CloudBeam Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

Amazon S3 and Glacier can be used for a variety of use cases including disaster recovery copies, archive or content distribution. But what is most interesting is using Amazon Web Services like Redshift, to replace data warehouses with a more…

Tagged with: Amazon RDS, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Attunity, CloudBeam, data warehouses, Redshift
Posted in Briefing Note

Global Data Access With A Global NAS – Panzura Amazon re:Invent Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing global companies is gaining access to the same data at the same time so that projects can be collaborated on in real-time. These organizations need local high performance access to data but need to make…

Tagged with: AEC, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Cloud storage, NAS, Network-attached storage, Panzura
Posted in Briefing Note

HotLink Unifies VMware, Amazon Web Services and NetApp

Posted on November 14, 2013 by George Crump

Most data centers want to use cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to compliment, not replace their existing data center operations. This may be for augmenting a disaster recovery plan, bursting computation workloads into the cloud to cover peak…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, NetApp, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Blog

How to Reduce Server-side Cache Risk

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Eric Slack

Storage caching enables the use of a very fast storage area, typically flash, to intelligently store the most frequently accessed data objects and improve application performance. Server-side caching uses one of a variety of flash based SSDs internal to the…

Tagged with: Cache (computing), FlashSoft, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
Posted in Article

The 5 Reasons Why Storage Is Eating Away Your Virtualization ROI – And How To Stop It

Posted on November 12, 2013 by George Crump

The initial return on investment (ROI) of server or desktop virtualization projects are impressive. The potential cost savings associated with eliminating dozens of physical servers or the reduction in operations time to manage thousands of user desktops, can be rewarding.…

Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
Posted in Webinar

Scale-Out NAS or Object Storage?

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Unstructured data is becoming a big headache for many organizations. By some estimates, this type of data (user files, emails, PDFs, images, videos, etc.) now accounts for up to 90% of all new data growth. While most of this information quickly…