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Can Scale-Up Storage be Scaled-Out?

Is it possible to scale-out your scale-up storage solution even though it wasn’t built to do that? The only question is how you’re going to scale it out. Most methods of scaling (both out and up) add to complexity. So

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Advanced Data Protection for MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop

Datos IO Briefing Note Customers with massive petabytes sized cloud databases are exactly who Datos IO is looking for. Companies creating giant product catalogs that thousands of people a day are simultaneously accessing and updating find that they cannot meet

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What is Data Monetization?

Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh

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Are the Hardware Requirements of Your NoSQL Database Killing Your Budget?

When SSD isn’t fast enough for you, the rules have changed. Databases have always wanted more memory, but the demands of applications like Cassandra and Couchbase take this to a new level. The demands of NoSQL databases like Cassandra and

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Today’s Data must be Mobile

Data mobility was once the stuff of dreams – but no more. The days of data a user creates, manages, and eventually deletes living all in one place are no more. Data management applications that acknowledge this are the new

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Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply

Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of

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Object Storage with High Performance and Security

If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise

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Storage Challenges can Dunk Splunk Projects

Don’t get caught unaware of the storage challenges of your future Splunk project. If nothing else, at least be aware of the amount of storage that a Splunk project can generate and prepare yourself for the cost of acquiring and

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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough

Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and

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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services

Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom

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