It’s a fact that data stored on magnetic media degrades over time. It cannot be stopped; it can only be managed. It’s a problem that you must address if you plan to create a data monetization system that stores data…
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Maintaining Data Monetization Value over Time
Tagged with: Bit Rot, Caringo, Data Monetization, Magnetic, NAS, Object Storage, Retention
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Managing your Cloud’s Lifecycle
One of the most important, recent shifts in enterprise IT operations is the migration of not only ever-increasing amounts of data to the cloud, but also the full complement of business services as IT begins to implement a cloud first…
Storage All-Star Team — All-Flash Filer with Object Storage
For over a decade, network attached storage systems (NAS) have tried to expand beyond the typical use case of a store for user home directories. Companies like NetApp maintain NFS is perfectly appropriate for supporting virtual infrastructures and Oracle databases.…
Is your Backup Software Aware of your Data?
Twenty years ago backup applications had absolutely no knowledge of the data they were backing up. Those responsible for backing up applications such as Oracle, Informix, or Sybase were told to either shut down those applications prior to running a…
Performance Issues with a Full NetApp Filer
A full filer is not going to perform as well as one that has a little space to do its work. That’s why we’ve been talking about the concept of a “thin provisioned” filer, or a filer that has been…
Tagged with: Caringo, Defragmentation, NetApp, Object Storage, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Is NetApp Still Right for Unstructured Data?
The NetApp FAS series of storage systems have the potential to be at the center of most enterprise’s storage infrastructure. But there are certain data sets that stretch a FAS too far. For these situations, enterprises need to look for…
Tagged with: Caringo, Machine-generated, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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Overcoming Overprovisioning with Real-Time Scalability
Most data center administrators design storage infrastructures for peak load so when applications or users need the MOST performance or capacity, the system is able to meet the demand. The problem is that most of these peak demands occur occasionally…
Tagged with: Capacity, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Scalability, Virtualization, VM
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Data Protection Advantages of a Thin Provisioned Filer
A thin provisioned filer is a happy filer – especially from a data protection standpoint. In this context a thin provisioned filer is a filer that has plenty of free space due to older unused files moved somewhere else. Unfortunately,…
Tagged with: Backup, Caringo, Data Protection, Deduplication, Filer, Object Storage, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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Designing a Cost-Effective Data Monetization System
Three keys to a good data monetization system are collecting the right data, identifying and executing monetization against that data, and storing the data in a cost-effective way. It should go without saying that a data monetization system needs data,…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Caringo, Compression, Data Monetization, Deduplication, Object Storage, Recovery
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The Storage Architecture Behind The Thin Provisioned NetApp
Thin provisioning a NetApp can create as many problems as it solves. As mentioned in previous blogs, thin provisioning in this context refers to the act of clearing out older, unused files and putting them somewhere else. Essentially “thinning” the…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Latency, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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