For a new storage company to stand above the rest it has to, within its category, provide better performance, better cost or simplify management. Over the past two and a half decades we’ve seen many companies deliver these requirements. Is…
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Will There Be Another Great Storage System Company?
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, SATA, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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What is a End-User Data Management Strategy?
Users are more mobile than ever and while devices like tablets and smartphones are commonplace, most road warriors get most of their work done on laptops. A lot of the data on these laptops is unique and is never stored…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, file sync and share, Ransomware, Scale
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Unified Storage 2.0
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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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Understanding The AWS Storage Portfolio – Amazon Briefing Note
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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ChalkTalk Video: Merging Storage Silos
It seems like today’s data center has a storage system for every occasion. There is NAS for unstructured data, block for databases, archive systems to meet compliance demands, data protection storage to store backups and now mobility storage to meet…
How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications
Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…
Do You Need to Retain End-User Data?
An end-user data strategy for most organizations begins and ends with data protection. Certainly the ability to backup and recover user devices is critical and the most high profile component of the strategy, but retention of end-user data may be…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Retention, Scale
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Unstructured Business Continuity
When IT planners think of business continuity they often think of databases and applications the organization needs to sustain operations. But what about unstructured data? Does unstructured data need the same level of business continuity that structured data does? How…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status Quo
Between 2010 and 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data created by humans and enterprises will increase 50x. Legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems can’t meet the unstructured data demands of the mobile workforce or distributed organizations. In this…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, ROI, Unstructured data
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