At the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit there was a lot of discussion about data management and making sure the right data is on the right storage tier at the right time. Data management has been a core IT function…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Webinar: Ransomware – Five Reasons You’re Not As Protected As You Think
Ransomware is the number one threat to an organization’s data. These malware programs infiltrate an organization and encrypt every file they can access. The only way to unencrypt the data is pay a fee to the malware creator. Hence the…
Subscriber Exclusive – ChalkTalk Video: The Problems with NFS on Object Storage
If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this and provide NFS support. The problem is most of these vendors leverage a NFS gateway to act as the bridge.…
The Problems Using NFS for Mission Critical Workloads
NFS started life as a protocol for unstructured data, then in the early 2000’s NetApp and Veritas started to position NFS as an ideal way to host Oracle databases. NFS was easier and performed admirably when compared to the more…
Tagged with: Fibre Channel, Latency, Metadata, NFS, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Primary Storage’s Missing Cloud Link
Panzura Delivers Panzura Inside As the time comes to upgrade the storage infrastructure, organizations typically consider two options; an all-flash array or a hyperconverged architecture. While both designs solve many of the challenges data centers face, both are missing a…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Panzura, SSD
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Global IT Executive Summit – Blending Tape into Your Archive Strategy
It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense…
Tagged with: Archive, Flash, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, HPE, LTFS, LTO, NAS, Object Storage, ROI, Tape, Unstructured data
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Global IT Executive Summit – Overcoming The Tape Negatives
Each year FujiFilm sponsors the Global IT Executive Summit. This year’s event is in Boston. The focus is, of course, tape, and its goal is to convince IT professionals that tape is alive and well. Let’s be clear, Storage Switzerland’s…
Webinar: DRaaS vs. DIY DR – Which is Best For Your Organization?
Organizations are under constant pressure to improve their ability to recover from a disaster while lowering the cost of the disaster recovery process. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is catching the attention of many IT professionals as a viable…
DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures
Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. The question is do they help solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environment have: DR? The answer may come down to what hypervisor they…
Tagged with: dr, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, SRM
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ChalkTalk Video: Bring Clarity to Storage Analytics
It’s time that the different parts of the computing world knew about each other, says Shai Maskit, Director of Technical Marketing from Kaminario, in speaking with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump. He explained how the computing world is divided into three…
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