Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…
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Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data
Tagged with: Big data, Business Analytics, Data Protection, High Capacity, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Panasas, Reliability, SATA, Scale-Out, SSD, Unstructured data
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In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network
Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Unitrends delivers Flash in a Backup Appliance
Dedicated backup appliances have become a very popular method for deploying data protection software. They significantly reduce implementation time and greatly streamline ongoing support. But backup appliances face a challenge; everything around them is getting bigger and faster. Making sure…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Flash, Metadata, Recovery, Solid State Disk, Unitrends, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Zadara Multi-Tenant Storage Multi-Zoned for increased Availability
Any time a storage system claims to be “enterprise-class”, IT planners should look into its ability to survive a disaster. This is even true for storage systems that are cloud based, since a cloud data center is still just that,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, HA, Infrastructure, Multi-Tenant Storage, Replication, Zadara
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How Object Storage can improve Hadoop
When organizations begin to explore a Hadoop initiative their goal is to create an environment that can help them make better decisions. The more data that the Hadoop environment has access to and the faster that data can be processed,…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDFS, Infrastructure, Metadata, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out
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Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception
Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…
Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?
In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight
An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…
Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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The difference between Retroactive Deduplication and Software Defined Storage
Short of buying a new storage system with storage efficiency (deduplication and compression) built in, it is difficult to add the technology to an existing storage array. Today there are two ways to accomplish this. First, you can wait for…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HDD, Permabit, Purpose Built, Retroactive Deduplication, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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