IT considers data durable if it survives anything that might happen to it because of how the user stores it. Typical data protection systems (e.g. backup, snapshots, replication) protect data from component, media, site, and human failure – or at…
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Is VDI making you throw out your Storage?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects bring many benefits to the data center. The operational gains alone justify VDI. The challenge is getting users to embrace it so that IT can experience those operational gains. User adoption often comes down to…
Recovering from a Hurricane
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) should be relatively generic with a design that allows it to survive a data center outage of any type. But each type of disaster requires a unique response. At the Storage Decision’s “Modernizing Your Disaster Recovery…
NAS vs. Object: Data Archive – Long Term Data Efficiency
Most of the time when unstructured data is created there is never a need to access it again. But it is still necessary to store it just in case you need it. When the “just in case” scenario occurs, you…
Solve the NetApp Storage Performance Problem
IT organizations select NetApp storage because it excels at managing unstructured data. When NetApp first introduced the filer concept, the data it was intended to store was typically user created files from office productivity applications. The files were created, modified,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Flash, I/O, NetApp, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
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New Paper: The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
With the move to virtualization well underway, the data center faces its most pivotal technology refresh in its history. The current architecture was designed before the introduction of virtualization, but virtualization has been adopted into that legacy architecture at an…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-convergence, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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NAS vs. Object: The Dollar Per GB Challenge
Spending top dollar to store older fixed content on the typical network attached storage system (NAS) filer is more than just a waste of money — it’s actually spending more to get less. Using an object-based storage system may be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Tape vs Cloud for Archive and Cold Data
As my colleague, George Crump, discussed in a previous article, “What is Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, cloud storage is great for processing active data but becomes increasingly expensive for storing cold data that is seldom accessed. While…
NAS vs. Object Storage – Why Legacy NAS isn’t keeping Pace
When it comes to managing unstructured data the data center has problems. The legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems that it uses to store this data are no longer keeping pace with the demands of the modern data center. As…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Unstructured data, Web Object Scaler
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Is the Three-Tier Architecture needed?
The traditional three-tier architecture – compute, networking and storage – has served IT well for decades. It was born in an era where the availability of these resources were in short supply and the cost to acquire them was very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
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