All data is not equal. It needs to be stored on different types of medium depending on the use case. Even within the archive dataset, all data is not created equal. Just like there are tiers of storage for primary…
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Creating an Object Storage System that Bridges the gap to Tape
Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Hard disk, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What’s better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data?
The low upfront cost of cloud storage has great appeal. Almost any organization can purchase 100TB of storage instantly and only make the initial payment (month, quarter, and year). However, there is a problem with cloud storage that most cloud…
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
What Killed Archive?
The case for implementing an archive strategy is impressive, move the inactive 80% of data that hasn’t been accessed in the last year off of production storage to an archive store. An archive solution is less expensive, requires less power,…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Complexity, Crossroads, Data Preservation, Fujifilm, Migration
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What is Converged Data Management?
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Flash, Replication, ROI, Rubrik, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
ChalkTalk Video: Web-Scale Storage Solutions for Mid-Tier Data Centers
Mid-market data centers face big challenges when dealing with secondary data like backups, archives and simply dealing with unstructured data. This data can amount to 80% or more of the total data center storage capacity footprint. Ideally these data centers…
The Hard Disk Autopsy
The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
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Posted in Article
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group
Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Disaster recovery, Disk, LTFS, MLB, NAS, NFS, Tape, Unstructured data
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
Copy Data Management: In-Place vs. Rip and Replace
Copy Data are the copies of production data made for various business functions. It is growing at an alarming rate as IT and business processes beyond data protection demand access to versions of production data. Copy Data Management (CDM) has emerged to manage this data, creating two sub-categories reflective of their approach; “in-place CDM” and “replace CDM”. In this article StorageSwiss explains the differences in these approaches and how to select the one that is best for your data center.
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