Violin Systems was one of the first storage vendors to bring an all-flash storage system to market. While the company had early success in the market, a combination of fierce competition and poor management decisions lead to the company filing…
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Ready for an All-Flash Comeback – Violin Systems Briefing Note
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, IOPS, Latency, NVMf, Replication, Scale, Snapshots, SSD, Violin Memory
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Hyperconverged for the Enterprise and the Cloud – Datrium Amazon Product Briefing
Converging compute, storage and networking into a single tier sounds good at first but as the architecture scales and tries to extend into the cloud, problems arise. Most hyperconverged infrastructures are “over-converged.” In most cases, the lowest common denominator is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Datrium, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Scale, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Making the NAS to Object Storage Conversion Work – Cloudian HyperFile Briefing Note
Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file servers have long outlived their usefulness. They’re expensive and don’t scale easily, making them a poor fit for many use cases. Nonetheless, they’ve enjoyed a virtual monopoly in unstructured data storage. When 100TB was…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Problem with S3 Bucket Data Leaks
It seems like every couple of weeks there is an announcement of another exposed Amazon S3 bucket. Recently a branch of the military, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), was caught by security firm Upguard with a…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, Data Protection, Hard Drive, Hybrid, Infrastructure, S3
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Product Spotlight: Introducing Tiger Technology’s Tiger Bridge Software
Tiger Technology is a company with deep roots solving the storage management problems of companies in the media and entertainment market. Tiger is now broadening its reach to enterprise data centers as a whole. By proving themselves in the very…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, M&E, Metadata, Migrate, NAS, NTFS, Object Storage, Tape, Tiger Technology
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Optimizing Amazon EBS with S3
Primary storage vendors have been slow to integrate the public cloud into their solutions. Most pretend the public cloud doesn’t exist and even the vendors that do provide some level of integration to use the cloud only as a giant…
Overcoming the Network Problems of High Capacity Flash in All-Flash Systems
Flash media is getting denser. There have been several announcements promising 50TB plus SSDs within the next six months. The distinct advantage for all-flash systems is they will be able to deliver Petabytes of capacity in just a few rack…
SlideShare: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover…
Webinar: All-Flash For Databases: 5 Reasons Why Current Systems Are Off Target
Database applications like Oracle and MS-SQL make up most of the active data set. Making sure these applications respond almost instantly to user requests is a critical function for IT. The problem is meeting the instant response expectation is expensive,…
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