The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain data integrity and, it is far more cost-effective. While it seems like a perfect fit, actual implementations have struggled.
The challenge is object storage doesn’t natively support SMB or NFS protocols, the mainstay of NAS systems. Most object storage vendors try to cobble together a gateway approach that siloed data within the object store, creating a performance bottleneck and adding additional cost to the solutions.
Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudian in this on demand webinar as we discuss the advantages of object storage over NAS, the problems with converting from NAS to object storage and how to overcome those problems.
George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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