At the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit there was a lot of discussion about data management and making sure the right data is on the right storage tier at the right time. Data management has been a core IT function…
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Webinar: Ransomware – Five Reasons You’re Not As Protected As You Think
Ransomware is the number one threat to an organization’s data. These malware programs infiltrate an organization and encrypt every file they can access. The only way to unencrypt the data is pay a fee to the malware creator. Hence the…
The Problems Using NFS for Mission Critical Workloads
NFS started life as a protocol for unstructured data, then in the early 2000’s NetApp and Veritas started to position NFS as an ideal way to host Oracle databases. NFS was easier and performed admirably when compared to the more…
Tagged with: Fibre Channel, Latency, Metadata, NFS, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Primary Storage’s Missing Cloud Link
Panzura Delivers Panzura Inside As the time comes to upgrade the storage infrastructure, organizations typically consider two options; an all-flash array or a hyperconverged architecture. While both designs solve many of the challenges data centers face, both are missing a…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Panzura, SSD
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Global IT Executive Summit – Blending Tape into Your Archive Strategy
It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense…
Tagged with: Archive, Flash, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, HPE, LTFS, LTO, NAS, Object Storage, ROI, Tape, Unstructured data
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Global IT Executive Summit – Overcoming The Tape Negatives
Each year FujiFilm sponsors the Global IT Executive Summit. This year’s event is in Boston. The focus is, of course, tape, and its goal is to convince IT professionals that tape is alive and well. Let’s be clear, Storage Switzerland’s…
Webinar: DRaaS vs. DIY DR – Which is Best For Your Organization?
Organizations are under constant pressure to improve their ability to recover from a disaster while lowering the cost of the disaster recovery process. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is catching the attention of many IT professionals as a viable…
Webinar: DR Strategies For Hyperconverged Architectures
Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR,…
Storage All-Star Team — All-Flash Filer with Object Storage
For over a decade, network attached storage systems (NAS) have tried to expand beyond the typical use case of a store for user home directories. Companies like NetApp maintain NFS is perfectly appropriate for supporting virtual infrastructures and Oracle databases.…
Bringing Copy Data Management to Pure Storage
Catalogic Briefing Note The goal of a copy data management (CDM) solution is to limit the number of secondary copies of data by combining advanced snapshots and replication with orchestration to automate how secondary copies of data are presented to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Catalogic, CDM, Compression, Deduplication, Pure, Replication, Snapshot
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