How will cloud computing alter the role of today’s IT professional? Will IT as we know it disappear altogether or will IT pros remain in high demand with increased cloud adoption? To be sure, cloud computing is fundamentally changing how…
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How IT Can Remain Relevant In A Cloud World
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The 3 Problems With Adding Capacity To Your NAS – And How To Solve Them
Disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have become the workhorse of the data center. These systems are the first responders to the rampant growth of unstructured data facing organizations of all sizes. As a result, these organizations need to…
Tagged with: Capacity, Crossroads, Data Protection, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, NAS, Virtualize
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Decision Criteria for Purchasing Storage Acceleration Software
Virtualization creates a variety of unique factors that cause storage bottlenecks. An increase in application density, coupled with high volumes of randomized read and write requests, for example, place an increased burden on shared storage resources that ultimately has an…
Tagged with: Hypervisor, Latency, PernixData, RAM, Storage Acceleration, Virtual machine
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What Is The Data Protection Continuum?
In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protection, EMC, NAS, Protection, SAN, Shared Backup, Software Defined
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Rethinking Enterprise Storage
With soaring data growth occurring across all industries, IT planners need to rethink how they design and implement enterprise storage technology. Traditional NAS and SAN platforms have served as the bulwark of data center storage capacity for decades, however, storing…
Tagged with: Cloudian, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage, Storage-As-A-Service
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Are File Servers Holding Users Back?
Traditional file servers have served end-users well. Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems, which replaced file servers, took it a further step by allowing IT to provide the storage and share service without the burden of too much storage administration. But…
What Does Software-Defined Mean For Data Protection?
What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine. Protection
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Designing An Enterprise Class File Sync and Share Solution
When it comes to file sharing services, end-users have literally taken matters into their own hands. The proliferation of tablets and mobile devices has empowered end-users to consume public cloud services on-demand from any location globally. As a result, more…
Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Data Sharing, File Share, File Sync, Infrastructure, NAS, PanTerra
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Choosing The Right Flash Storage Architecture For Virtual Data Centers
When effectively implemented, flash storage technologies can help remedy storage IO contention issues and deliver a performance benefit to virtualized applications. It is important, however, for IT planners to find ways of augmenting virtual machine (VM) performance without discarding their…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Converged Storage, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, I/O Blender, PernixData, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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The Problems With Server-Side Storage, Like VSAN
The expression, “everything old is new again”, certainly applies to the renewed interest in server-side storage. Due to the widespread adoption of server virtualization technology, internal server storage is once again being hailed as a simple way to bring performance…
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