Storage Switzerland suggested a few years ago that IT professionals look for ways to get as much as 10 years out of their flash arrays. The problem was, as we cited at that time, most storage hardware manufacturers counted on…
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Overcoming All-Flash Array Post Implementation Problems
Tagged with: Capacity, Compression, Data Reduction, Deduplication, Density, Flash, Flash Array, Thin provisioning
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Is RAID/Replication/Erasure Coding Backup?
One of the things that makes a backup person’s head spin around is when they hear someone say, “my data is on RAID, so I don’t need to back it up.” The same would be true of erasure coding and…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Commvault, Erasure Coding, Latency, RAID, Replication
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Splunk Storage Basics
Splunk is software for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated data. While there is a lot of talk about “big data initiatives”, this is the big data that organizations have right now. Use cases include predictive analytics for IT operations, security…
Overcoming the Fear of Managing User Data
Despite all the attention big data and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives currently get, IT professionals still site users as one of the primary causes of unstructured data growth. Despite the fact machines and devices can create data non-stop, user…
What is Backup?
Defining backup is both simple and complex. Google says a backup is “the procedure for making extra copies of data in case the original is lost or damaged.” This definition describes the action (extra copies) and the purpose (in case…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Erasure Coding, RAID, Replication, Snapshots
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Archive Lessons from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
SPOILER ALERT!!! If you have not seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and don’t want me to ruin the most crucial part of the climax, and you are craving a blog on archiving then go read this blog. You’ve…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Data Retention, Electronic Discovery, Encryption, Storage
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How do Object Storage Systems Protect the Data they Store?
The value of object storage is that it can be the storage backend to a variety of unstructured data use cases, ranging from primary file stores, to unstructured data archives to a backup target for the protection of transactional primary…
Tagged with: Archive, Avere, Backup, Latency, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Is a Cloud Gateway Enough?
The ability for a storage system to store data in the cloud via an NFS or SMB connection – often referred to as a cloud gateway – is becoming table stakes. At this point in IT infrastructure development, we still…
Merging NAS, Object and The Cloud – Avere C2N Product Brief
As more organizations move to the cloud or plan to move to the cloud, in order to address challenges like the ever-rising tide of unstructured data, many are encountering various unexpected complications. Some of these complications are things like increasing…
The Cloud just got cheaper – again
A few weeks ago we did a webinar about whether it makes sense to use the cloud to store backups. Every time somebody at Storage Switzerland says something positive about storing things in the cloud, we can always count on…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Disk, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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