It seems like every CIO has enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) on their project whiteboard. The problem is that it is stuck there and the alternative, users doing their own thing, seems sort of acceptable. Most EFSS solutions are…
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Why Enterprise File Sync and Share is Broken
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Deplication, EFSS, file sync and share, FS&S, Migration, Qnext
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Is Now The Time for Software Defined Storage – SUSE Briefing Note
Storage remains the thorn in the side of IT as it attempts to meet the expectations of the organization. According to a study commissioned by SUSE, 70% of IT departments say their current storage strategies are not keeping up with…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, performance, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SUSE, Virtualization
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Beating Down The Local SSD Myth – E8 Storage Briefing Note
The All-Flash Array market is at a crossroads. The SSD drives they use are getting faster but the systems that hold those drives are not. Today a single NVMe SSD is capable of greater than 700k IOPS, but most AFA…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Container, E8, Fabril, Latency, NoSQL, NVMe, Replication, SQL, SSD, VM
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Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Hyperscale Data Centers – Excelero Briefing Note
A hyperscale data center may have hundreds of instances of multiple applications. At any point in time one of these instances may peak and demand a much higher than normal amount of CPU and storage IO, starving other instances and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, Convergence, CPU, Excelero, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, IOPS, Mirroring, NVMe, Replication, Software Defined, Virtualization
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StorageShort: Overcoming Cloud’s Data Gravity Problem
Access to almost limitless, on-demand compute and storage means public cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Azure should be a factor in the strategy of almost any sized enterprise. Most experts recommend a hybrid approach, but the problem is data…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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Data Preservation vs. Data Archive
Eighty percent of an organization’s data is active and 15% of it really matters. Archiving is the management of the 80%. Data preservation is the management 15%. While organizations often need help identifying the 80% of data that is not…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, Replication, SMB, Tape, Virtual
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Can The Storage Channel Solve The Cloud Storage Latency Problem
While cloud storage has plenty of benefits, its biggest weakness, latency, keeps it from receiving full adoption. The solution may be found in a group of businesses that many think cloud storage replaces, storage resellers. If they can solve the…
The State of Storage Architectures
Storage architectures evolved from the legacy scale-up architectures to scale-out architectures. Scale-out architectures evolved into hyperconverged architectures. The data center is also evolving, of course, but at an even faster pace. The problem is all this storage evolution has not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Kaminario, NVMe, Redundancy, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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How To Solve the Unstructured Data Paradox – WekaIO Briefing Note
There is a capacity and performance paradox to unstructured data that wastes IT budget and resources as IT tries to find the perfect solution. In terms of capacity, the organization has more and more data to store each year, and…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Flash, Hyperconverged, NAS, QOS, Scale, Unstructured data, WekaIO
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StorageShort: What Services Should MSPs Add To Their Portfolios?
Managed Service Providers (MSP) are under pressure to add more services to their portfolios. Most started with backup and now are looking to add services like application hosting and virtual desktop as a service. Not only are these services complicated…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, MSP, Replication
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