Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…
ClearSky’s Ellen Rubin is the co-founder and CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ellen discusses how ClearSky’s global storage network simplifies the entire data lifecycle and delivers enterprise storage as a fully managed…
It is a well known fact that unstructured data is growing. But there is an aspect of its growth that may take unsuspecting IT professionals off guard; the number of individual files storage systems need to store today and the…
It’s 2016 and still the number one storage management application is Microsoft Excel. Storage administrators continue to use Excel spreadsheets to track how much capacity each server is using and assign which LUN or volume goes to those servers. Of…
Prior to attending EMC World, I was aware EMC owned only one archive product: SourceOne. It is capable of handling the archiving and e-discovery needs of email and file systems. SourceOne was developed by EMC several years ago after learning…
I was pleasantly surprised when I visited storage vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, suffice it to say that it is massive. It is Las Vegas’ second largest…
Avere’s Ron Bianchini is the CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ron discusses how Avere gives organizations the ability to put an end to the rising cost and complexity of data storage, the…
Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with backups are that they are not…
Scale Computing Briefing Note There are generally three ways one can use flash in a storage system. From a data management perspective, the all-flash array is the easy approach as one does not need to decide what will go on…
Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and number of files you store? Cloud storage…
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