Object storage systems store objects and file systems store files. While an object and a file are typically the same thing, how they are stored is not the same; it is the difference between an object storage system and a…
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Can the SME market automate DR? – Zetta Briefing Note
The Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) market is often overlooked by storage hardware and software vendors. Some vendors focus only on the enterprise customers who need many petabytes of data while other vendors focus only on individuals and the SMB…
DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures
Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. The question is do they help solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environment have: DR? The answer may come down to what hypervisor they…
Tagged with: dr, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, SRM
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Nexenta Releases Storage for Persistent Docker Containers
What if you do not consider one of the greatest advantages of containers to be an advantage to you? Many tout the stateless nature of containers as their single greatest feature. They start up, they accomplish their task, and they…
Maintaining Data Monetization Value over Time
It’s a fact that data stored on magnetic media degrades over time. It cannot be stopped; it can only be managed. It’s a problem that you must address if you plan to create a data monetization system that stores data…
Tagged with: Bit Rot, Caringo, Data Monetization, Magnetic, NAS, Object Storage, Retention
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Is your Backup Software Aware of your Data?
Twenty years ago backup applications had absolutely no knowledge of the data they were backing up. Those responsible for backing up applications such as Oracle, Informix, or Sybase were told to either shut down those applications prior to running a…
Performance Issues with a Full NetApp Filer
A full filer is not going to perform as well as one that has a little space to do its work. That’s why we’ve been talking about the concept of a “thin provisioned” filer, or a filer that has been…
Tagged with: Caringo, Defragmentation, NetApp, Object Storage, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Data Protection Advantages of a Thin Provisioned Filer
A thin provisioned filer is a happy filer – especially from a data protection standpoint. In this context a thin provisioned filer is a filer that has plenty of free space due to older unused files moved somewhere else. Unfortunately,…
Tagged with: Backup, Caringo, Data Protection, Deduplication, Filer, Object Storage, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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Monitoring VMware with Artificial Intelligence
SIOS Briefing Note There is no way we can optimize all the VMs in this world — and yet they need to be optimized. The sooner we all accept these two facts, the sooner we can move on to something…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, HA, performance, SAN, SIOS iQ, SQL, VM
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Designing a Cost-Effective Data Monetization System
Three keys to a good data monetization system are collecting the right data, identifying and executing monetization against that data, and storing the data in a cost-effective way. It should go without saying that a data monetization system needs data,…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Caringo, Compression, Data Monetization, Deduplication, Object Storage, Recovery
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