Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
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Developing your 2015 Flash Strategy
As we approach the last quarter of 2014, IT professionals are reaching out to me about what their flash strategy should be in 2015. Many are looking to move beyond the adoption phase that addresses point solutions and into a…
StrongBox brings integrated Data Archiving to NetApp, Windows & Linux Storage
Overwhelmed by unstructured data, like images, video and files not in a database, enterprises are struggling to keep up with storage capacity needs, especially since budgets are flat. As we discussed in a recent article, “The 3 Problems With Adding…
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Efficiency, LTFS, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Archiving to Amazon from your Private Cloud Storage
The only predictable aspect of unstructured data is that it will continue to grow almost unabated. Meeting today’s capacity requirements of unstructured data can largely be handled when organizations deploy private cloud storage, also known as object storage. The more…
Tagged with: Amazon, Archive, Cloudian, Hybrid Cloud, Object Storage, Private Cloud
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Why is VM Density so low?
In our recent webinar “Max VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking & Operational Transparency” respondents to one of the polling questions indicated that over 40% of the time their servers were supporting less than a dozen virtual machines (VMs). This…
Tagged with: Archive, Brocade, Density, ROI, Storage Networking, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
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The IRS’ lost emails – bad procedure or bad lie?
The recent news that the IRS “lost” Lois Lerner’s e-mails has been making headlines in the news media, but not so much in data protection circles. That may be because any data protection expert knows that this claim simply makes…
ChalkTalk Video – How To Overcome The NetApp Capacity Gap
Join Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump and Crossroads Systems Executive Vice President of Strategy, David Cerf in this ChalkTalk video as they detail the problems with the growing NetApp Environment and how new solutions are coming to market that…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, ChalkTalk, Crossroads, NAS, NetApp, Unstructured data
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Breaking The NetApp Upgrade Cycle
The amount of data not in databases, like images, video and office productivity files are consuming increasing amounts of storage capacity and the quantity of these files is also increasing exponentially. As a result, enterprises are struggling to keep up…
Webinar – Set Your Storage Budget Free – Breaking Out Of NetApp Capacity Jail
Adding capacity to a NetApp NAS system is easy, but “easy” comes at a premium price. Addressing the growth of unstructured data by growing your NetApp systems will lead you to be locked into a never ending stream of additional…
ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CrossRoads Systems, Data Protection, Disk, Storage Switzerland, Tape
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