Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…
It is a well known fact that unstructured data is growing. But there is an aspect of its growth that may take unsuspecting IT professionals off guard; the number of individual files storage systems need to store today and the…
It’s 2016 and still the number one storage management application is Microsoft Excel. Storage administrators continue to use Excel spreadsheets to track how much capacity each server is using and assign which LUN or volume goes to those servers. Of…
Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with backups are that they are not…
Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and number of files you store? Cloud storage…
EMC chose their annual user conference, EMC World 2016 as EMC’s coming out party for a new storage offering: Unity. While all the marketing around Unity focuses on an $18,000 all-flash configuration it is a hybrid solution available in hard…
Storage hardware vendors like to refer to themselves as software companies. While it is true that most of them write storage software that runs on off-the-shelf hardware, most of them require that you buy their hardware to get their storage…
Organizations looking to move some or all of their workloads to the cloud will at some point look for a way to provide those applications with basic file services. In this on demand webinar Storage Switzerland and SoftNAS lead an in-depth discussion of why…
No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this podcast we will you a recap of EMC World day 2 and give…
The old ways of managing unstructured data through file servers and network attached storage (NAS) systems were basically “store and forget” architectures. Today, unstructured data is more intertwined to the actual application. Unstructured data is often monetized, has financial value…
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