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StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group

Posted on August 7, 2015 by George Crump

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
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Hadoop Storage: DAS vs. Shared

Posted on July 23, 2015 by George Crump

As Hadoop scales and the data center begins to count on it, the extra expense required to maintain DAS performance, reliability and scalability often end up being more expensive than the shared storage alternative. In this article we discuss how the multi-faceted capabilities of a scale-out, distributed storage software end up being less expensive than DAS.

Tagged with: CIFS, DAS, Hedvig, Metadata, NFS, Shared Storage, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center

Posted on April 20, 2015 by George Crump

Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Cloud, Hybrid, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: StorageX Promises to end NAS Migration pain

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Eric Slack

The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…

Briefing Note: Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Extends Value of File Sync and Share

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Eric Slack

Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that addresses the issues most company IT organizations…

Tagged with: Architecture, CIFS, Cloud, Egnyte, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid, Metadata, Share
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StrongBox Archive NAS solves problem of Long-term Unstructured Data Storage

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

Unstructured data is burying companies’ storage infrastructures. According to Gartner, files comprise 80 percent of all data, and its growth rate in enterprises will exceed 800% in five years. Compounding this problem is the need to store these data for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, dr, LTFS, LTO, NAS, NFS, RAID, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis

WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
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A Hybrid NAS for Unstructured Data

Posted on November 11, 2014 by George Crump

There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.

Tagged with: CIFS, Crossroads, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid NAS, NAS, NFS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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Nexenta explains the economics behind Software-Defined Storage

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Eric Slack

Nexenta is a software-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86-based hardware of their choice and disk or flash-based arrays, with support recently added for all-flash arrays. Based on the ZFS file system,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Nexenta, Object Storage, Red Hat, SDS, Software Defined, VMware, VSAN, Windows
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StrongBox brings integrated Data Archiving to NetApp, Windows & Linux Storage

Posted on August 12, 2014 by George Crump

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…