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…
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Performance Issues with a Full NetApp Filer
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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VMware and Data Domain Founders Build New Storage Company
When founders of both Data Domain and VMware are introduced by Diane Greene to create a storage company, things are bound to be interesting. Typically, product briefings from Storage Switzerland do not start with the pedigree of those developing the…
Tagged with: Capacity, Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Flash, HCI, Latency, performance, RAID, SSD, VM
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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Spectra Logic Takes on Glacier
Spectra Logic is taking on Glacier (Amazon’s product for cold storage) in both senses of that term. Another way to say it is they are in “coopetitiion” with Glacier. First, BlackPearl is Spectra Logic’s object storage system that supports both…
Data Monetization and the Art of Data Collection
Data Monetization is the art of extracting value from an organization’s existing data assets. For example, monetary value of data can come from creating a new video product from an old one, or can come from the analysis of years…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Monetization, Data Repository, IoT, Metadata, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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