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Subscriber Exclusive – ChalkTalk Video: The Problems with NFS on Object Storage

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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