If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise…
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Object Storage with High Performance and Security
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scality, Security, Unstructured data
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Storage Challenges can Dunk Splunk Projects
Don’t get caught unaware of the storage challenges of your future Splunk project. If nothing else, at least be aware of the amount of storage that a Splunk project can generate and prepare yourself for the cost of acquiring and…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, ClearSky, Disaster recovery, Latency, Machine-generated, Splunk
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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough
Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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Break Vendor Lock-in with Data Virtualization
For quite some time now, organizations have struggled to keep up with explosive data growth that continues to grow exponentially each year. In addition to the never ending demand for faster application response times, most data now needs to be…
Tagged with: Capacity, Metadata, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Podcast: Why is Unstructured Data Killing NAS?
Join Storage Switzerland and Caringo for a preview of our on demand webinar “What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?“. No Registration Required! Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data…
Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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What is a Cloud Ready Platform?
Once an organization has carefully considered all the various factors, requirements and ramifications of a cloud first strategy and has decided to implement it, they need the means to accomplish the migration of their selected data, applications and processes to…
Bats Aren’t Blind & IT Shouldn’t be Either
Bats aren’t blind. They just can’t see. The term “blind as a bat” could just as well be “blind as a person driving in the dark without headlights.” The reason bats are “blind” is that they hunt at night and…
Data Keepage – The Pros and Cons of Keeping Data
Maybe you don’t need to replace your NetApp filer. Maybe what you need to do is just make better use of it. Repurpose it and revitalize it instead of replacing it. Unstructured data – while incredibly valuable – usually has…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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