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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Where Is The Copy of Record in a File Sync & Share Service? – CTERA Product Spotlight
When assessing Enterprise File Sync and Share services (EFSS), it’s essential to understand the concept of the copy of record. What is the “copy of record?” The term is borrowed from the legal world, and it refers to the original…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, CTERA, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, file sync and share, Latency
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Why is Unstructured Data So Important?
A lot of the advancements happening in storage seem to be for unstructured data. Why is that? Have all of the problems for databases been solved? It’s not like databases are no longer important. But what does seem to be…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Facial Recognition, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Do NAS Systems Need More Than NFS & SMB?
Many years ago when the NAS market was born, it was very simple to distinguish between NAS systems and SAN systems. SAN systems ran on Fibre Channel and NAS systems ran on Ethernet. SAN systems used block protocols like SCSI…
How Do You Search an Amazon S3 Bucket? – Scality Briefing Note
With Amazon S3’s native search capabilities, users are limited only to searching the name of the object. Most people however, want to search by many things in addition to the name of the object. Specifically, they would like to be…
Can You Actively Protect Against Ransomware? – Acronis Backup 12.5 Briefing Note
It is possible to identify and stop ransomware in its tracks. It’s also possible to recover from the damage that ransomware attacks cause. It requires a multi-level approach using intrusion detection systems, ransomware detection systems, and a backup and recovery…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Bare Metal, Cloud SQL, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VMware
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Why are SDS Vendors Becoming Hardware Vendors?
Things used to be simpler. There were monolithic storage vendors using proprietary hardware and there were software defined storage (SDS) vendors selling software that you could run on your favorite Intel machine. But the SDS wave sent a clear signal…
Does The Cloud Need Backup?
There is no such thing as the cloud; there is only somebody else’s computer. Data stored in the cloud (i.e. on someone else’s computer) needs to be protected just like data stored on your own computer. No one would question…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, Ransomware, Tervela
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What is Open Converged Infrastructure?
Converged infrastructure (CI) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) are common terms, but open converged infrastructure (OCI) is new. What is it and how is it different from the other architectures? This article will start with an examination of the similarities and…
Tagged with: Compression, Converged, Datrium, Encryption, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, LUN, Open Converged, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Do Nutanix Customers Need a Backup Solution? – Comtrade HYCU Briefing Note
Nutanix customers find themselves in an interesting situation. On one hand, they have a scale out hyperconverged infrastructure system that has helped many people expand their virtualization environment. But some Nutanix customers find themselves in need of a backup solution.…
Tagged with: Backup, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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