Bats aren’t blind. They just can’t see. The term “blind as a bat” could just as well be “blind as a person driving in the dark without headlights.” The reason bats are “blind” is that they hunt at night and…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Data Keepage – The Pros and Cons of Keeping Data
Maybe you don’t need to replace your NetApp filer. Maybe what you need to do is just make better use of it. Repurpose it and revitalize it instead of replacing it. Unstructured data – while incredibly valuable – usually has…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Data Centers need Open Cloud Integration
Organizations establishing a cloud first strategy are looking for ways to integrate both legacy and modern applications. They are also looking for ways to automate and orchestrate redundant tasks. The goal is self-service IT, where users order the capabilities they…
Curing Storage Blindness
As modern organizations struggle to keep up with the ever-growing data deluge, they have been forced to deploy and overprovision different types of storage in order to meet their Service Level Agreements (SLA), leading to unprecedented storage sprawl. Storage consolidation…
Tagged with: Flash, Fragmentation, NAS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLA, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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Old Apps Need To Die
If you have an application that is no longer supported by its developer, or an app that will only run on an older version of your operating system, this blog post is for you. That app needs to die, as…
Webinar: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?
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 Webinar
Posted in Webinar
What does your data need?
Have you ever needed to get somewhere really quickly? Consider the things that go through your mind. This parallels how storage management is typically done in today’s data centers. But we could do better. For example, what if you lived…
Flash vs. The Cloud
The cloud, both compute and storage, is appealing to IT administrators because they buy the cloud “as a service.” That means an organization can gain access to compute and storage resources as they need them and only when they need…
Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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Sometimes Cloud Bursting is Bad – Permabit Briefing Note
IT professionals use the phrase “cloud bursting” to describe a process where they move compute and storage to the cloud when the local data center runs out of those resources. But there is another type of bursting that happens to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, CSP, Deduplication, Hybrid, Open Source, Permabit, Virtualization
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