Then and Now Over the last decade, organizations have experienced massive changes in the data center and the storage industry. Workloads found in modern data centers today are vastly different from what was common back in the days of dedicated…
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Solve Your Storage Headache – Unlimited Scale but Controlled – Qumulo Core 2.6 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Scale, Virtualization, VM
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Evidence Management Use Case
Possibly the most onerous challenge an organization can face is litigation, whether the legal challenge is against another entity or from an individual, another organization or a government agency that is mounting a legal challenge against the organization. The resulting…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, E-discovery, EMC, Encryption, Metadata, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Importance of Maintaining Proper Security and Control of Data in DRaaS Environments
As my colleague George Crump discussed in his article on disaster recovery as a service, “Introducing DRaaS 2.0”, there are a number of compelling advantages in using DRaaS solutions. However, regardless of the cost savings and other advantages when organizations…
Tagged with: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Encryption, Object Storage, Quorum, VM
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Solving the Distributed Storage Challenge by Centralizing Your Data – Talon FAST Software Briefing Note
Modern organizations continue to face an uphill battle as they struggle to meet the challenges of storing ever-growing amounts of unstructured data while also cost effectively managing their distributed storage environment. Many organizations are now moving data and operations to…
Endpoint Data Protection with a Difference – Zoolz Briefing Note
All organizations today, regardless of size, have to deal with a myriad of governmental rules and regulations that require the organizations to retain, secure and protect all of their data in specific ways determined by the governmental body requiring the…
Tagged with: Baas, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, eDiscovery, Metadata, NAS, NFS, SAN, SMB, Zoolz
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Improving Data Protection with Data Virtualization – Actifio Briefing Note
Anyone in IT these days is painfully aware of the challenge organizations face dealing with ever-increasing amounts of data they need to properly store and protect. The irony is that the majority of data growth is not just the new…
Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, Hypervisor, RAID, Replication, Snaphots, Test/Dev, Virtualization
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Simplifying Infrastructure Performance Management for IBM Spectrum – SVA BVQ Briefing Note
Today’s enterprise data center is a complicated virtualized storage infrastructure that has to function reliably and efficiently on a full time basis. It also has to be able to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. A key part of this infrastructure…
Merging NAS, Object and The Cloud – Avere C2N Product Brief
As more organizations move to the cloud or plan to move to the cloud, in order to address challenges like the ever-rising tide of unstructured data, many are encountering various unexpected complications. Some of these complications are things like increasing…
Raising the Bar for Data Aware Scale-out NAS – Qumulo Briefing Note
Over a year ago, Qumulo released a new data-aware scale-out NAS solution designed to address what it considers a key weakness in scale-out storage – Increased data management complexity when adding nodes to the cluster. This means most scale-out NAS…
Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management
The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be…
