Scale-out storage systems tend to protect data from media failure in one of two ways; they either use replication or erasure coding. Replication creates a user-defined number of copies of data, typically a minimum of three, as it is created…
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Scale-Out Storage: The Advantages of Replication vs. Erasure Coding
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS
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NEW! Exclusive Insight on Storage, SDN, SDS, and The Cloud
Subscribers to Storage Switzerland’s Newsletter now have access to our exclusive analysis of recent news and trends within the storage software-defined data center as well as the cloud. The report is sent out (almost) daily to subscribers and provides analysis…
Webinar: Consumption Based Data Management Providing Peace of Mind
Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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The Anatomy of the Copy Data Problem
Countless IT processes count on copies of data. Backup is an obvious example, but test/dev, analytics processing, reporting, and file auditing are others. Various studies have indicated that copy data can consume as much as 10X the space consumed by…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note
Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hammerspace, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Webinar: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?
The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…
Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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SlideShare: Evolving Data Protection from Backup to Copy Data Management
Copy Data Management promises to not only improve the data protection process, it promises to provide value to the organization even without a looming disaster. It can reduce storage costs by presenting virtual copies of data to test/dev, analytics and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Managing Unstructured Data at Scale
Unstructured data as it scales from terabytes to petabytes creates a massive problem for organizations as they attempt to protect and manage that data. IT struggles with gaining visibility into the state of their unstructured data, which often requires multiple…
Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Is File Sync and Share OK for Endpoint Backup?
A surprising number of organizations and users consider their file sync and share (FSS) solution to be a suitable replacement for backup. With an FSS solution if a user accidentally deletes a file the FSS service can provide the user…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Demo, Disaster recovery, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, file sync and share, Infrascale, Migration, VPN
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Lightboard Video: The Changing Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments
High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments typically use parallel file systems as the core of their storage architecture. These environments also tend to leverage object storage as a near-line long-term repository of data. Object storage systems though, thanks to improved hardware and…
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