The value of object storage is that it can be the storage backend to a variety of unstructured data use cases, ranging from primary file stores, to unstructured data archives to a backup target for the protection of transactional primary…
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How do Object Storage Systems Protect the Data they Store?
Tagged with: Archive, Avere, Backup, Latency, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Is a Cloud Gateway Enough?
The ability for a storage system to store data in the cloud via an NFS or SMB connection – often referred to as a cloud gateway – is becoming table stakes. At this point in IT infrastructure development, we still…
Controlling AWS with vCenter – HotLink Briefing Note
Many companies are finding workloads that are much more appropriate for the infinite scalability and cost predictability of the public cloud. They are also finding the public cloud to be an excellent disaster recovery and business continuity resource. The challenges…
Integrating Copy Data Management with DRaaS – Axcient Briefing Note
Why don’t Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) vendors offer Copy Data Management (CDM) services? In order to do that, the company in question must have a copy of your data. The service must also be able to go back…
Tagged with: Axcient, Cloud, Copy Data, CPM, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Replication, Snapshot
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The Cloud just got cheaper – again
A few weeks ago we did a webinar about whether it makes sense to use the cloud to store backups. Every time somebody at Storage Switzerland says something positive about storing things in the cloud, we can always count on…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Disk, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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What are the Use Cases for Object Storage?
Object storage systems have several unique capabilities compared to other storage systems. They can provide infinite scalability of both performance and capacity, they have integrated and flexible data protection, and they have a strong association of data and metadata. What…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Data Protection, Metadata, Object Storage, performance, Unstructured data
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Getting Object Storage Ready for the Enterprise – Scality Briefing Note
There’s no question that the enterprise is starting to use object storage, even if you only consider the use of the various public cloud storage vendors, as they all use object storage interfaces. Of course, many people storing their corporate…
Quorum Briefing Note – Instant Recovery Software gets Major Update
Quorum OnQ already appeared to be a solid product. OnQ is a next-gen backup and recovery product built around modern ideas of data protection. It could back up virtual or physical machines and store those backups in native (but deduplicated)…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, performance, Quorum, Recovery, Scalability, SSD, VM
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More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note
The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
The Great Debate – Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Storage
A recent Storage Switzerland webinar sparked an online discussion on the idea of using cloud storage services coupled with a cloud caching appliance. As with all online discussions, there were some naysayers and some supporters. I enjoy debating anything –…
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