Primary Data Briefing Note VSAN customers now have access to file sharing services for their VMs with new functionality from Primary Data. As mentioned in a previous post, VMware is marketing VSAN as a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product; install VMware…
To some, object storage systems have been something off in the distance. Other people may use it, but they’re not sure it really helps them. Add the perceived requirement of changing user behavior and you have a stalemate. But what…
The cheapest filer is the one you don’t have to buy. A thin provisioned filer can do a lot more than a standard filer if you implement the concept properly. The investment in technology and processes that allow for a…
A lot of people worry that a deep archive in the cloud will be about as useful as the boxes in the deepest part of your attic. The data will be stored in an economical way and the cloud vendor…
People who spend money on things instead of just talking about them are said to be putting their money where their mouth is. Data monetization extracts money from where your customers’ mouths are. That is, it allows you to learn…
Ransomware is the latest and greatest threat from those wishing to profit from doing harm to data. While it started as a threat to consumer data, it is clearly expanding into a full-on assault against corporate data, which costs companies…
If you’re not afraid of ransomware, you either haven’t thought about it or you thought about it enough to be very prepared for it. Ransomware is nothing but an electronic way of stealing money from you or your company, and…
You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…
Filers can start out so fast and end up so slow. How is that possible? A lot of companies buy a new filer and run a few performance tests against it, and they’re happy with what they see. The problem…
Typically backup is the copying of data from one type of storage system (e.g. primary storage) into another type of storage system (e.g. backup system) for the purposes of recovery in case the first copy becomes unavailable. This definition works…
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