One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…
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Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent
Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
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Global Data Access With A Global NAS – Panzura Amazon re:Invent Briefing Note
One of the challenges facing global companies is gaining access to the same data at the same time so that projects can be collaborated on in real-time. These organizations need local high performance access to data but need to make…
Tagged with: AEC, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Cloud storage, NAS, Network-attached storage, Panzura
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SoftNAS Cloud – NAS for Amazon Web Services
When an organization decides to move some or all of its applications out of its data center and into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the key decisions is how they will store and access data. While Amazon’s Elastic…
Tagged with: Amazon Marketplace, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, IOPS, NAS
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Nirvanix Shutdown, Good News For Cloud Storage
October 2013 will be remembered for the abrupt shutdown of the Nirvanix Cloud. While this may seem like bad news for the cloud market, it actually may be one of the best things to happen to cloud storage. Cloud storage…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Data set, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Remote backup service
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Deep Storage Connects Long Term Data Storage to the Workflow
Deep Storage is a tape tier that’s been made accessible to applications and workflows without file system limitations or the complexity of archiving solutions. Using a REST-based interface called “Deep Simple Storage Services” (DS3) Deep Storage can be directly connected…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Disk storage, Flash memory, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, storage efficiency
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Avoid MSP Backup Sprawl: Less is More in the Cloud
Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Intronis, Microsoft Windows, Remote backup service, Site Management, Windows
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Can Tape Save Cloud Storage?
“Cloud Storage” – the term invokes a vision of an infinitely scalable disk storage system assembled from commodity hardware that can provide near-instant access to the data it stores. There are two problems with this concept of cloud storage ‘nirvana’.…
Tagged with: Cloud storage, Disk storage, Hardware, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, Tape library
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Rethinking the Storage Controller for Unstructured Data
Conventional wisdom suggests that most business data is stored in database applications, however, unstructured data comprises approximately 70-80% of the total data in a typical environment and, according to some industry sources, is growing 5x as fast. File-based data is…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Exablox, NAS, SharePoint, Unstructured data
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center
Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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How To Scale Object Storage
Scalability has always been an important characteristic of enterprise storage systems, maybe the most important, since the rationale of consolidating storage assumes that the system can easily grow with aggregate demand. With applications like cloud storage, the ability to scale…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Cloud storage, Network-attached storage, Object Storage, RAID, Scalability
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