Yearly Archives: 2016

StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this reality and most, if not all, are including capabilities so that allows for the transfer of storage to the object…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
Posted in StorageShort

Hyperconvergence and VDI – The Perfect Match?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by George Crump

Atlantis Briefing Note Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) look good on the IT whiteboard. Their lower operational costs and longer desktop/laptop life expectancy are top expectations. In execution, however, the projects often stall. Calculating the necessary compute performance, storage performance and…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, performance, Snapshot, Thin provisioning, VDI
Posted in Briefing Note

Is NetApp Still Right for Unstructured Data?

Posted on September 8, 2016 by George Crump

The NetApp FAS series of storage systems have the potential to be at the center of most enterprise’s storage infrastructure. But there are certain data sets that stretch a FAS too far. For these situations, enterprises need to look for…

Tagged with: Caringo, Machine-generated, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
Posted in Blog

Overcoming Overprovisioning with Real-Time Scalability

Posted on September 8, 2016 by George Crump

Most data center administrators design storage infrastructures for peak load so when applications or users need the MOST performance or capacity, the system is able to meet the demand. The problem is that most of these peak demands occur occasionally…

Tagged with: Capacity, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Scalability, Virtualization, VM
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Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem

Posted on September 7, 2016 by George Crump

Maxta Briefing Note Hyperconvergence is a compelling solution to organizations trying to simplify their virtual infrastructures in an effort to be more “cloud-like”. The technology consolidates storage software into the hypervisor of a virtual infrastructure, eliminating the need for a…

Tagged with: Clones, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, Maxta, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
Posted in Briefing Note

Data Protection Advantages of a Thin Provisioned Filer

Posted on September 6, 2016 by wcurtispreston

A thin provisioned filer is a happy filer – especially from a data protection standpoint. In this context a thin provisioned filer is a filer that has plenty of free space due to older unused files moved somewhere else. Unfortunately,…

Tagged with: Backup, Caringo, Data Protection, Deduplication, Filer, Object Storage, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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StorageShort: Flash and Big Data?

Posted on September 2, 2016 by George Crump

To keep costs down, hard disk drive was the storage of choice for the data that drives a big data analytics project inside the server that is doing the processing. Internal storage keeps costs down and reduces network latency but…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hard disk, IBM, Latency, Shared Storage, SSD
Posted in StorageShort

Monitoring VMware with Artificial Intelligence

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wcurtispreston

SIOS Briefing Note There is no way we can optimize all the VMs in this world — and yet they need to be optimized. The sooner we all accept these two facts, the sooner we can move on to something…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, HA, performance, SAN, SIOS iQ, SQL, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
Posted in Slideshare

Designing a Cost-Effective Data Monetization System

Posted on September 1, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Three keys to a good data monetization system are collecting the right data, identifying and executing monetization against that data, and storing the data in a cost-effective way. It should go without saying that a data monetization system needs data,…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Caringo, Compression, Data Monetization, Deduplication, Object Storage, Recovery
Posted in Blog