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Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support

NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to

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What is Data Monetization?

Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh

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Podcast: Why is Unstructured Data Killing NAS?

Join Storage Switzerland and Caringo for a preview of our on demand webinar “What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?“. No Registration Required! Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data

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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?

Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now

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Data Keepage – The Pros and Cons of Keeping Data

Maybe you don’t need to replace your NetApp filer. Maybe what you need to do is just make better use of it. Repurpose it and revitalize it instead of replacing it. Unstructured data – while incredibly valuable – usually has

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Webinar: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?

Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the

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SlideShare: Designing Storage and Apps to Enable Data Monetization

The old ways of managing unstructured data through file servers and network attached storage (NAS) systems were basically “store and forget” architectures. Today, unstructured data is more intertwined to the actual application. Unstructured data is often monetized, has financial value

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The Problems with Data Monetization

Data Monetization is leveraging an organization’s existing data to either increase profits or efficiency. This data can come from a variety of sources including modern devices like the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors and cameras. But it can also

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NAS vs. Object: Making the Migration

Using new technology can be hard. Getting to the new technology is often the hardest part, and there are a few keys to making that migration as painless as possible. Painful migrations can create the worst of all situations –

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Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes

Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to

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