Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…
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Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems
Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
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A Big Data Center without White Boxes – Storage in the Large Financial Enterprise
Google, FaceBook and many of the largest web-scale companies have made the use of commodity, ‘white box’ storage systems seem like the standard practice for large enterprises. Not so. Storage Switzerland recently spoke with a global financial institution about how…
Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Efficiency, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, Real Time, Scale Up, Tier-1
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management
The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…
Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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What is Copy Data?
Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Eagle Eye Networks brings the Cloud to Video Surveillance
Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…
Tagged with: Analytics, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, Data Growth, Eagle Eye, Expandable, Infrastructure, Video
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The future of the Storage business
HDS Analyst Summit 2014 One of the topics at Hitachi Data Systems’ analyst summit in Colorado recently was the future of storage. The company was asked by several participants what their strategy was to deal with the ‘commoditization’ of storage…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, Data Collection, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, Storage
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The Internet of things that matter
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
Backup Needs to Become Adaptive
The foundational component of any data protection strategy is the backup process. It is the backup system’s responsibility to capture and secure data as it changes and then make sure that data can be recovered in a timely manner. But…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Data Protection, HP, Metadata, Prioritization, SLA
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