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ChalkTalk Video: Designing Storage for Social Discovery

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

There is a lot of storage cost for “social discovery” websites – sites that deliver content based on specific search requirements – to store their petabytes of collected data. The need to provide near instant response to user requests but…

Tagged with: Architecture, Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
Posted in Video

Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity

Posted on September 14, 2015 by George Crump

Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…

Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyper-converged, Recovery, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note

The easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better

Posted on June 26, 2015 by George Crump

Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…

Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStac
Posted in Blog

IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which…

Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Hard disk, Retention, SpectraLogic, Surveillance
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Briefing Note: Springpath Delivers SDS from the Ground Up

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

In the future, the data center’s storage architecture should be able to scale elastically, automatically adapting to performance demands. It should also be more than just reliable; it should be self-healing, and deliver these capabilities with cloud economics. This future…

Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, performance, Replication, Scale, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Briefing Note

Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
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Briefing Note: Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Extends Value of File Sync and Share

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Eric Slack

Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that addresses the issues most company IT organizations…

Tagged with: Architecture, CIFS, Cloud, Egnyte, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid, Metadata, Share
Posted in Briefing Note

Using the Nasuni Service to solve File Data Challenges

Posted on January 28, 2015 by George Crump

File data, also known as unstructured data, is one of the biggest challenges facing IT. Users want seamless access to this data no matter where they are or how old the data is. IT needs to manage the growth of…