Public cloud storage is highly scalable and very cost effective. It also happens to be located next to an almost infinite supply of compute. Why then do most primary storage vendors pretend the resource doesn’t exist? The answer is quite…
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No Room in the Data Center – Secondary Storage Needs Cloud Integration – Cohesity Briefing Note
Most data growth in the enterprise is happening because of secondary storage use cases like backup, archive, and data re-use for test/dev or analytics (also known as copy data). In most cases, the capacity of secondary data is 10 to…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Protecting MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop – Datos IO Briefing Note
Data center modernization usually includes the organization moving to modern cloud applications like MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. Like most new initiatives a forgotten element is data protection. These environments are particularly challenging to protect because they are designed to run…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Corruption, Datos IO, Deduplication, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
Three Steps To Ending The Data Protection Nightmare
Recent surveys indicate that over 50% of organizations feel their data protection processes can’t be counted on for consistent, rapid recovery of data. Instead of trying to band-aid the problem, IT needs to develop a holistic strategy. In this “Steak…
Making the NAS to Object Storage Conversion Work – Cloudian HyperFile Briefing Note
Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file servers have long outlived their usefulness. They’re expensive and don’t scale easily, making them a poor fit for many use cases. Nonetheless, they’ve enjoyed a virtual monopoly in unstructured data storage. When 100TB was…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Product Spotlight: Introducing Tiger Technology’s Tiger Bridge Software
Tiger Technology is a company with deep roots solving the storage management problems of companies in the media and entertainment market. Tiger is now broadening its reach to enterprise data centers as a whole. By proving themselves in the very…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, M&E, Metadata, Migrate, NAS, NTFS, Object Storage, Tape, Tiger Technology
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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Optimizing Amazon EBS with S3
Primary storage vendors have been slow to integrate the public cloud into their solutions. Most pretend the public cloud doesn’t exist and even the vendors that do provide some level of integration to use the cloud only as a giant…
SlideShare: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover…
ChalkTalk Video: What’s Wrong with Traditional Backup vs The Cloud?
Traditional backup consists of a backup server, which stores copies of production data in a tape library or a deduplicated disk storage appliance. Most of these legacy solutions try to extend themselves into the cloud. The problem is the backup…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Scale
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