About 85% of the data most organizations store has not been accessed in 90 days and most of it hasn’t been accessed in years. The reality is data managers really don’t know what’s in that data or if it is…
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Leveraging the Cloud For Data Distribution
For organizations with multiple offices where employees need access to the same data at the same time, leveraging the cloud for unstructured data storage make sense. Not only does it help with data distribution, it also helps ease data management…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Real-time Storage Requires Real-time Analysis
All-Flash arrays enable applications to deliver real-time, instantaneous results to the applications using them. But to make sure those applications are getting the full benefit of the all-flash array requires an infrastructure that is also performing optimally. Real-time analysis is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analysis, ChalkTalk, CISCO, Flash, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, VM
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Unified Storage 2.0
There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Will NVMe Over Fabrics Kill DAS?
Many advanced application architectures use Direct Attached Storage (DAS) instead of centralized shared storage for two reasons. First, in most cases sever drives are less expensive than drives found in shared storage systems. Second, storage that is internally accessed has…
Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?
An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Do You Need to Retain End-User Data?
An end-user data strategy for most organizations begins and ends with data protection. Certainly the ability to backup and recover user devices is critical and the most high profile component of the strategy, but retention of end-user data may be…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Retention, Scale
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What’s Next after NVMe?
NVMe is a protocol designed specifically for memory based storage technologies like flash drives. The new industry standard protocol is seeing rapid adoption among vendors meaning the data center may see these solutions become mainstream before the end of the…
Unstructured Business Continuity
When IT planners think of business continuity they often think of databases and applications the organization needs to sustain operations. But what about unstructured data? Does unstructured data need the same level of business continuity that structured data does? How…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI, Unstructured data
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