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Multi-Tenant Primary Cloud Storage For Legacy Applications

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

Maybe someday every application will run in a cloud-ready, NOSQL environment from the start. But for now there are millions of legacy applications that businesses would like to move to the cloud. The problem is that the basic storage services…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, NAS, NetApp, Network-attached storage, SAN, Zadara
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Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note

CloudBeam Empowers Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics – Attunity’s CloudBeam Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

Amazon S3 and Glacier can be used for a variety of use cases including disaster recovery copies, archive or content distribution. But what is most interesting is using Amazon Web Services like Redshift, to replace data warehouses with a more…

Tagged with: Amazon RDS, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Attunity, CloudBeam, data warehouses, Redshift
Posted in Briefing Note

Global Data Access With A Global NAS – Panzura Amazon re:Invent Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing global companies is gaining access to the same data at the same time so that projects can be collaborated on in real-time. These organizations need local high performance access to data but need to make…

Tagged with: AEC, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Cloud storage, NAS, Network-attached storage, Panzura
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HotLink Unifies VMware, Amazon Web Services and NetApp

Posted on November 14, 2013 by George Crump

Most data centers want to use cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to compliment, not replace their existing data center operations. This may be for augmenting a disaster recovery plan, bursting computation workloads into the cloud to cover peak…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, NetApp, Virtual machine, VMware
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The 5 Reasons Why Storage Is Eating Away Your Virtualization ROI – And How To Stop It

Posted on November 12, 2013 by George Crump

The initial return on investment (ROI) of server or desktop virtualization projects are impressive. The potential cost savings associated with eliminating dozens of physical servers or the reduction in operations time to manage thousands of user desktops, can be rewarding.…

Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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Identifying Tape As Production Workloads

Posted on November 6, 2013 by George Crump

I recently attended the Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit in Houston featuring CIO and IT executives from around the world. At the summit the subject of using tape in production came up. While we spend most of the time using…

Tagged with: Backup, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Hard disk drive, Houston, IBM, Tape drive
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The Democratization of FCoE

Posted on November 5, 2013 by George Crump

Let’s face it, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has not been the roaring success that vendors hoped it would be. Why? Probably the number one reason is that it was too expensive. Users expected FCoE to be cheaper, much cheaper,…