Object storage is an excellent secondary tier of storage. It can drive down the cost of storage, improve the quality of data retention and ensure that data is safe in the event of a disaster. Unlike other forms of storage,…
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Finding Object Storage’s Missing Link
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, Copy Data, Data Protection, file sync and share, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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SlideShare: 5 Steps To The Perfect Storage Refresh
An Independent Process for Assessing & Refreshing Storage Every data center eventually needs to increase capacity, resiliency, performance or the cost efficiency of its storage architecture. It needs to refresh storage infrastructure. The problem is that most organizations don’t have…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Webinar – Showdown: Hardware-Based Hyperconvergence vs. Hyperconvergence Software
Hyperconverged architectures come in two flavors; hardware-based hyperconvergence or hyperconvergence software. Hardware-based hyperconvergence is where the hardware and the software are licensed together and pre-integrated from a single vendor. Hardware-based solutions look appealing on the surface – just plug them…
The Impact of Extremely High Density SSD Drives – Viking Technology Briefing Note
The next generation of solid state drives (SSD) are coming to market. Some are focused on performance and are leveraging NVMe connectivity to reduce latency. Others are focused on extremely high capacity (50TBs+) and are designed for dense data center…
SlideShare: Hyperconvergence is Broken, Learn How to Fix it!
While hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) offer rapid startup they lock organizations into a specific set of vendor compute, storage, networking and hypervisor configurations. And, as the infrastructure scales it becomes increasingly difficult to deliver workload specific levels of performance and data…
Tagged with: Datrium, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Scalability, Scale
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Speed is Critical For Ransomware Recovery
Speed of recovery from any disaster is always important, but it is most critical in terms of recovering from a ransomware attack. Most ransomware fees are typically a few thousand dollars, and are rarely more than $20,000. For the organization,…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery, ROI, WannaCry
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When Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
Why Windows File Server Archive ROIs are Broken
Windows file server archiving is the process of getting all the old data off of an organization’s Windows file servers and moving them to some less expensive form of storage. The concept has been around almost since there were Windows…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Optimization, Ransomware, ROI, Windows
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Hyperconvergence Has To Scale Better – Scale Computing Briefing Note
Hyperconverged architectures are a natural fit for medium to large size businesses that can house all or most of their applications within their environment. But hyperconverged vendors need to help businesses get started and help them extend the hyperconverged use…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Scale, Scale Computing, Virtualization, VMware
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The Security Advantage of Cloud Bursting
The result of a poll in our latest webinar, “How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing to the Cloud“, indicates security remains a concern of organizations looking at leveraging the cloud. In the poll, 46% of respondents chose security as…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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