The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…
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File Storage vs Object Storage?
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Replication, File Storage, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Object, Object Storage
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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape
The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, CIFS, Compression, Crossroads, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, NAS, NFS
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The Active Archive Alliance Saving You From Unstructured Data Deluge – Podcast
Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and I sit down with Floyd Christofferson, Chairman of the Board for the Active Archive Alliance. Floyd talks about the value of the Alliance and how its work can help the IT…
Tagged with: Active Archive Alliance, Archive, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, online storage, Storage Switzerland, Unstructured data
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Data Management vs. The Sock Drawer
One of the most mundane home cleanup tasks is re-organizing the sock drawer. Data Management has been the IT equivalent for years. It is an event that often requires someone from outside of the data center to come in and…
Real-Time Video Data – Competitive Advantage or Budget Sinkhole?
One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and…
Can Data Profiling Solve The Data Epidemic?
It comes as no surprise to any IT professional that unstructured user data is growing. What may surprise them is the rate at which that growth is occurring and the lengths of time that data needs to be retained. The…
Tagged with: Archive, Data Profiling, Index Engines, Metadata, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Why is Facebook Looking at BluRay?
Facebook recently put out a video showing their engineering manager with a new optical juke box Facebook has designed to hold BluRay DVDs that store “cold data”. According to the company, these are users’ oldest pictures and videos that are…
Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
Unstructured Data Meets Tape Archiving Efficiency
Dealing With the Unstructured Data Deluge in Higher Education Colleges and Universities have many of the same issues with efficiently protecting critical data archives as private corporations but arguably, their challenges are even greater. While IT budgets have typically remained…
What Is Protection Storage?
What is protection storage? Is this merely a way to re-package the role of purpose-built data deduplication appliances or are there some unique attributes to protection storage that warrants closer scrutiny from technology decision makers? In short, protection storage drives…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Domain, Deduplication, EMC, Protection Storage, Recovery
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