In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
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Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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Is It Time to Modernize NAS?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are the cornerstone of most organization’s storage architectures. For decades they’ve replaced legacy Windows or Linux file servers to provide SMB and NFS access from a single system that can support many more users. But…
Evidence Management Use Case
Possibly the most onerous challenge an organization can face is litigation, whether the legal challenge is against another entity or from an individual, another organization or a government agency that is mounting a legal challenge against the organization. The resulting…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, E-discovery, EMC, Encryption, Metadata, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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DR Ready Storage Must Be Cloud Aware
The success of cloud providers like Amazon, Azure and Google is forcing the data center to re-think various aspects of their IT infrastructure. There are cases where a cloud provider can enhance typical on-premise storage to be DR Ready and…
The Role of Backup in a Disaster Recovery Operation
Almost anything that interrupts users from accessing their applications or their data is, to them, a disaster but for most IT Professionals a true disaster is an event that causes the loss of the entire data center. Disasters of this…
The Enterprise Use Case of Object Storage
The idea of infinitely scalable, self maintaining, searchable object storage in the cloud is a great idea – if you can make use of it. If an enterprise is able to create a use case around this resource, then they…
Recovery From Ransomware
Ransomware, or the people who use it, are very successful in both infecting systems and extracting money from the organizations impacted by the infection. Most organizations we speak to face a ransomware infection multiple times per year, so if your…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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The Advantages of a Fabric Based File System
Storage solutions that offer customers familiar, flexible interfaces (e.g.files and file attributes), while also offering advanced features like automated data movement and cloud bursting, offer a unique solution to many problems. The more seamless we can make things for the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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Are you Asking the Right DR Questions
It’s a really sad thing when a customer gets far down the path of a project and finds out it is going to fail. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve seen this happen. A customer has…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Infrascale, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape
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What is Scale-Out NAS 2.0
Scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are designed to address the shortcomings of scale-up solutions. Namely scale-up solutions require IT professionals to accurately predict the performance and storage capacity needs for the life of the NAS. Scale-out solutions by comparison…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hard Disk Array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SDS, Tape, Unstructured data
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