It seems like every week there is news of another Amazon S3 Bucket being left wide open and its data exposed to anyone that figures out the bucket’s URL. Companies experiencing these data leaks include large Fortune 500 organizations and…
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Can an All-Flash Array Drive Down Costs?
When an organization implements an all-flash array, its objective is to meet user demand for improved application responsiveness. But the organization should also expect the flash array to drive down the cost of delivering that level of performance. The problem…
What’s Next in Enterprise Backup Appliances? INFINIDAT Backup Appliance Briefing Note
Backup Appliances come in two forms. Integrated appliances that have the backup software pre-installed on them and appliances that act as stand-alone systems so they can accept input from a variety of backup sources. The second type is probably more…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Encryption, Infinidat, NFS, Recovery, Replication, SMB
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Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: How to Create A Two Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage
The only problem with the all-flash data center is most of the data (as much as 85%) organizations store is not accessed in more than a year. Assuming there is a more cost effective way to store that data it…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Posted in Slideshare
Time for a Storage SOFTWARE Refresh – StorONE Briefing Note
When the storage software becomes more efficient, the hardware it runs on suddenly loses the significance it once did. In other words, storage can then truly become software-defined. The problem is so-called software-defined vendors have to pre-configure their software on…
Storage for Deep Learning
Deep Learning is a machine learning method that uses algorithms to determine a predictable behavior by analyzing seemingly disparate types of data. Use cases include fraud prevention, image classification, speech recognition, and countless others. To deliver a frictionless interaction with…
Webinar: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Posted in Webinar
Consolidating Applications and Environments – Red Hat CEPH Storage 3 Briefing Note
Data Modernization is a lot like transitioning from being a child to being an adult. The in-between stage, known as the teenage years, can be a bit messy. Instead of going from young to old, data center modernization is transitioning…
Tagged with: Container, Data modernization, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, Metadata, Object Storage, Red Hat, ROI, Scale, SDS
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Posted in Briefing Note
Dealing with the Polarization of Unstructured Data
Quantum Xcellis Scale-out NAS Briefing Note Unstructured data is polarizing. On one end, a large portion of unstructured data needs almost no performance, it just needs to be retained in case it is needed in the future. On the other…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Big data, Cloud, HPC, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Posted in Briefing Note
Why Do Primary Storage Providers Resist the Public Cloud?
Public cloud storage is highly scalable and very cost effective. It also happens to be located next to an almost infinite supply of compute. Why then do most primary storage vendors pretend the resource doesn’t exist? The answer is quite…
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