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Dealing with the Polarization of Unstructured Data

Posted on December 15, 2017 by George Crump

Quantum Xcellis Scale-out NAS Briefing Note Unstructured data is polarizing. On one end, a large portion of unstructured data needs almost no performance, it just needs to be retained in case it is needed in the future. On the other…

Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Big data, Cloud, HPC, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Unified Storage 2.0

Posted on September 6, 2017 by George Crump

There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…

Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Understanding The AWS Storage Portfolio – Amazon Briefing Note

Posted on September 6, 2017 by George Crump

Amazon Web Services (AWS) support a large number of use cases, ranging from high transactional applications to analytic processing applications, as well as backup and archiving solutions. As vendors and data centers decide on how they will use Amazon they…

Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, AWS, Backup, Cloud, Container, Data Lake, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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Managing Active Unstructured Data

Posted on January 4, 2016 by George Crump

InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…