Organizations struggling to store and manage an ever rising flood of unstructured data turned to the cloud and object storage in order to contain or reduce costs. But, over time many of them discovered that increasing, recurring costs to store…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Making Object Storage Simpler at Petabyte Scale with Intelligent Management
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, CSP, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SDS, SMB
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Webinar: Designing Storage and Apps to Enable Data Monetization
The old ways of managing unstructured data through file servers and network attached storage (NAS) systems were basically “store and forget” architectures. Today, unstructured data is more intertwined to the actual application. Unstructured data is often monetized, has financial value…
NAS vs. Object: Supporting Next Apps
Today’s apps aren’t your father’s apps. Applications developed today take for granted things that were not even thinkable not that long ago — especially in the storage space. The scale that is needed by modern day applications was never envisioned…
SlideShare: 4 Ways to Improve NetApp Storage Performance Without Replacing It
Unstructured data is growing rapidly and IT planners are searching for ways to cost effectively store this data. While most unstructured data is inactive, a small portion of it is very active and the applications using that portion demand very…
NAS vs. Object: HA w/o the headaches
Some systems are born with high availability, others have it thrust upon them. This seems to be the case when discussing the High Availability (HA) features of traditional NAS systems vs those of object storage systems. HA refers to the…
NAS vs. Object: Performance – Thinly Provisioned NAS
Network Attached Storage (NAS) filers were originally designed to be a central repository that provides fast access to frequently changing files on primary storage. NAS also makes it simple to add more storage capacity over existing Ethernet networks. However, the…
Tagged with: Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Scale, SDS, Storage Sprawl, Thin provisioning, Unstructured data
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Posted in Blog
A Fresh Take on SDS – Quobyte Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions are a dime a dozen. The problem is that only a few solutions truly differentiate themselves from the features that come with the legacy storage hardware systems they are replacing. The key value to SDS…
Webinar: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
ChalkTalk Video: Software Defined Storage has to do More
The first phase of software defined storage (SDS) is bringing many benefits to the data center. Its abstraction of storage software from the storage hardware enables organizations to manage all their storage assets from a single view, along with a…
Ethernet vs. Fibre is the War Over? Cisco Announces New 9718 Director Class Switch
Ethernet will never completely replace Fibre Channel, they said – and they were right. Fibre Channel will always be faster, they said – and they were wrong. In fact, what they were wrong about was whether or not a war…
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