Object storage is a method to store data. Most IT professionals are familiar with the more traditional Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file system approach. Both are a way of organizing and storing data on a storage system. POSIX mimics…
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What Exactly is Object Storage?
Tagged with: Dell, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, POSIX, Redundancy, Tape, Unstructured data
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Can a Deep Archive in the Cloud be Useful?
A lot of people worry that a deep archive in the cloud will be about as useful as the boxes in the deepest part of your attic. The data will be stored in an economical way and the cloud vendor…
Putting the Data Monetization Architecture to Work
People who spend money on things instead of just talking about them are said to be putting their money where their mouth is. Data monetization extracts money from where your customers’ mouths are. That is, it allows you to learn…
Legacy Apps in a Containerized World
It is hard enough to convince organizations to virtualize their mission critical applications, now IT professionals are facing the challenge of convincing their organizations to containerize those mission critical applications. Virtualization frees mission critical applications of being bound to a…
Be afraid – very afraid – of Ransomware
If you’re not afraid of ransomware, you either haven’t thought about it or you thought about it enough to be very prepared for it. Ransomware is nothing but an electronic way of stealing money from you or your company, and…
Building a Cloud Storage Toolkit – What Types of Cloud Storage are There?
Cloud storage is a broad term that covers a lot of different storage types. Generally it should be reserved for storage that resides outside of an organization’s data center. Typically your data goes to one of the larger public cloud…
How hard is it to do DR for VMware/Hyper-V?
You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…
Tagged with: dr, HCI, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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Is your Filer running out of Steam?
Filers can start out so fast and end up so slow. How is that possible? A lot of companies buy a new filer and run a few performance tests against it, and they’re happy with what they see. The problem…
Object Storage FAQ
One of the things I like about Spiceworks is the website’s user forums. They give a good sense of what is going on in the trenches of IT. Recently a user asked a series of questions about Object Storage. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Putting the P Back in Disaster Recovery Planning
It seems that sometimes we forget the third letter in the acronym “DRP” (Disaster Recovery Planning). The “P” stands for “planning” and it is something that busy data center administrators replace with “make it up as you go along”. The…
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