Ceph offers an open source storage alternative to those who need object, block, and file services. Initially developed at UC Santa Cruz and funded by a number of government agencies, Ceph has grown into a very interesting solution for a…
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Ceph: Roll Your Own or Turnkey?
Tagged with: CEPH, Cluster, Concurrent, Migrate, Open Source, Replication, Scale, SDS, TCO
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Does All-Flash Really Eliminate VMware Performance Tuning?
VMware, as it became the standard in the data center, created a huge storage problem, often called the IO blender. Fortunately, as the IO blender problem was about to reach its peak, hybrid and all-flash arrays came to market reducing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, Latency, NAND, SAN, Virtual Instruments, VMware
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MeetTheCEO of CloudLanes
CloudLanes CEO, Asif Moinuddin is our guest on this LIVE MeetTheCEO with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges. The team discusses Mr. Moinuddin’s background, introduces listeners to CloudLanes creators of the Cloud Data Platform, which enables enterprises to responsibly…
White Paper – Can You Use The Cloud for Long Term Data Preservation?
Most organizations have a subset of data they need to preserve. Preservation is different than archiving. Preservation means that the data can’t be changed, must always be readable and the organization needs to know who is accessing it. Often there…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, Scale, SMB, Virtual
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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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How Do You Manage Petabytes of Data?
Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HGST, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Is There Value in Converged Data Protection?
The idea of a single platform offering computing, network, and storage services with integrated data protection sounds almost utopian. What could be better than all aspects of computing already built into the system that you buy? Systems integrating functions like…
Product Analysis – How Rubrik Handles Ransomware Recovery
A ransomware attack puts IT in a battle against the malware author. To the victor goes the data. Every organization needs a prevention strategy. It also must realize that at some point the virus will get through, and at that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud Backup, HDD, NFS, Ransomware, Recovery, Rubrik, SQL, SSD
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The Art of Eliminating Downtime to Achieve High Availability
Downtime, no matter what the cause, is becoming less acceptable to organizations of all sizes. Clearly, technology exists that can eliminate it. But with the reduction or elimination of downtime, the associated costs – when compared to once-per-night backups –…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HA, Latency, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Synchronous
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NAB Report: Is There a Cloud Caching Appliance for SMBs? – Morro Briefing Note
There are a number of appliances that are designed to give you the benefits of the cloud with the performance of local storage. We tend to call these products cloud gateways or cloud caching appliances. The idea is that the…
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