If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this and provide NFS support. The problem is most of these vendors leverage a NFS gateway to act as the bridge.…
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ChalkTalk Video: Bring Clarity to Storage Analytics
It’s time that the different parts of the computing world knew about each other, says Shai Maskit, Director of Technical Marketing from Kaminario, in speaking with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump. He explained how the computing world is divided into three…
Webinar: The Five Problems Facing Business-Critical NFS Deployments
VMware, NetApp and even EMC are proponents of using NFS based storage systems to support mission critical workloads like virtual machines, databases and performance sensitive unstructured data. But in comparison to mission critical fibre channel, the tools to monitor and…
Webinar: The Lies that Software Defined Storage Tell
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is one of the most hyped terms in the industry. It is supposed to break vendor lock-in, allowing the use hardware from any vendor. Yet most data centers buy their storage hardware and storage software from…
StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem
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
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Posted in StorageShort
SlideShare: 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
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Posted in Slideshare
ChalkTalk Video: Infrastructure Aware-Flash: All-Flash is the First Step, not the Final Step
Many vendors position all-flash arrays arrays as the performance cure-all, especially for virtualized environments like VMware and Hyper-V. But flash is actually only the first step, other aspects like connectivity, data protection and disaster recovery need to be considered as…
Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash, Connectivity, Data Protection, dr, Flash, HP, Hyper-V, VMware, VMworld2016
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Posted in Video
ChalkTalk Video: Provisioning Storage Network at Flash Speeds
All-Flash Arrays solve many performance problems that virtual environments face and mitigates the storage I/O blender. The problem is that after these arrays are implemented the time to provision networking resources to the array can take weeks. During operation, provisioning…
Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Flash, Provisioning, SSD, Virtualization, VMworld2016
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StorageSwiss at VMworld 2016
StorageSwiss is once again at VMworld with a whole new round of ChalkTalk Videos from some of the leading storage and infrastructure suppliers. Join George Crump and Curtis Preston throughout the week and they bring you technical ChalkTalks with the…
ChalkTalk Video: Object Storage Needs Flash Too!
Object storage is known by many for its ability to drive down the cost to store data through the use of commodity servers and high capacity hard drives. But object storage systems need flash and object storage system designers need…
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