For organizations with multiple offices where employees need access to the same data at the same time, leveraging the cloud for unstructured data storage make sense. Not only does it help with data distribution, it also helps ease data management…
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Leveraging the Cloud For Data Distribution
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Real-time Storage Requires Real-time Analysis
All-Flash arrays enable applications to deliver real-time, instantaneous results to the applications using them. But to make sure those applications are getting the full benefit of the all-flash array requires an infrastructure that is also performing optimally. Real-time analysis is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analysis, ChalkTalk, CISCO, Flash, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, VM
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Unified Storage 2.0
There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Optimized Performance for Oracle and MS-SQL – Vexata Briefing Note
In most cases CPU utilization is a direct result of how quickly can the storage architecture respond to the IO request. Generally speaking, the lower the CPU utilization, the more time the CPU is waiting for the storage architecture to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Encryption, Flash, KX, MS-SQL, NAND, NVMe, Oracle, RAM, SAS, Shared Storage, SSD, Vexata
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Understanding The AWS Storage Portfolio – Amazon Briefing Note
Amazon Web Services (AWS) support a large number of use cases, ranging from high transactional applications to analytic processing applications, as well as backup and archiving solutions. As vendors and data centers decide on how they will use Amazon they…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, AWS, Backup, Cloud, Container, Data Lake, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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Webinar: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot
The data protection process sometimes has objectives that seem to be in opposition to one another. On one side, the organization needs rapid and frequent data captures so that RPOs and RTOs are met. On the other side, there is…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Webinar: The Four Requirements of a Cloud-Era File System
File systems are the heart of most organizations. They’re how critical unstructured data assets are stored, organized, and shared. But with files exploding in size and quantity as well as the cloud offering potentially cheaper and more scalable storage than…
Webinar: 5 Keys for Next Generation DRaaS
DRaaS is entering its second phase. No longer is it good enough to simply be able to recover applications in the cloud. Next generation DRaaS has to be able to backup faster, recover faster, include ransomware protection and be able…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
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Will NVMe Over Fabrics Kill DAS?
Many advanced application architectures use Direct Attached Storage (DAS) instead of centralized shared storage for two reasons. First, in most cases sever drives are less expensive than drives found in shared storage systems. Second, storage that is internally accessed has…
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