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Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management

The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be

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Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage

While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the

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Amazon Re:Invent Briefing – Igneous – S3 in your Data Center

Despite the ever increasing acceptance of the cloud, an undeniable reality is most organizations will have data they will never put into the cloud. At the same time these organizations “get” the value of an elastic storage infrastructure that they

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Amazon AWS re:Invent – Amazon Goes Snowmobiling

One of the biggest challenges facing an organization contemplating a move to the cloud is ingestion. How do you get all your data to the cloud in a timely manner? Sure you could replicate it, but if the organization’s data

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StorageSwiss at Amazon AWS re:Invent

Storage Switzerland is at Amazon AWS re:Invent again this year. We are lurking the halls of re:Invent, tackling vendors and users to get their thoughts on what’s going on with the cloud. Amazon re:Invent Bigger Than VMworld VMworld has been

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A Turnkey Storage Architecture for OpenStack and Docker

Scale-Out All-Flash Solution with Micron, Nexenta and SuperMicro Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions bring the ultimate in flexibility but it does require that IT professionals work through the process of fine tuning the software with both the storage hardware and

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The Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments?

For most High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, high performance storage is a critical component in the infrastructure. The storage systems need to feed the compute infrastructure as quickly as possible. With object storage improving its performance and adding flash to

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The Great Debate – Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Storage

A recent Storage Switzerland webinar sparked an online discussion on the idea of using cloud storage services coupled with a cloud caching appliance. As with all online discussions, there were some naysayers and some supporters. I enjoy debating anything –

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Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage

I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:

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Is DRaaS a Panacea?

There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our

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