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What’s Wrong with a Cloud First Strategy – Velostrata Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

The problem with a cloud first strategy is organizations assume clouds are the ultimate data centers, that the organization can’t do it better themselves. The reality is that there are some functions where the cloud is more optimal. Then there…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, Latency, Migration, Object Storage, RAM, SSD, Velostrata, VM, WAN
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Is it Time to Retire Your NAS?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

It’s time to retire Network Attached Storage (NAS) – at least as we know it. These systems, glorified file servers, are over two decades old. In that time, users have become more mobile, and organizations more diverse. What seemed like…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Data Center Modernization Needs a Fabric – MapR-XD Briefing Note

Posted on June 30, 2017 by George Crump

There are four storage trends driving data center modernization. These trends are enabling storage architectures that are both dense and have massive scale, while also providing rapid response to applications and analytics. At the same time organizations are global and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Converged, Flash, M&E, MapR, Metadata, NFS, QOS, Scale-Out, Snapshot, Software Defined
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Webinar: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status Quo

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

Between 2010 and 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data created by humans and enterprises will increase 50x. Legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems can’t meet the unstructured data demands of the mobile workforce or distributed organizations. In this…

Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, ROI, Unstructured data
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What Happened to the All-Flash Data Center?

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

About the same time all-flash arrays appeared on the market, pundits started to predict the coming all-flash data center. In the all-flash data center, IT would finally find storage nirvana. There will be no performance issues, the days of tuning…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAND, NAS, NVMe, SAN, Tegile
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NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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Does The Cloud Need Backup?

Posted on June 28, 2017 by wcurtispreston

There is no such thing as the cloud; there is only somebody else’s computer. Data stored in the cloud (i.e. on someone else’s computer) needs to be protected just like data stored on your own computer. No one would question…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, Ransomware, Tervela
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A Private Cloud That’s More Than A Backup Appliance – Cloudian Product Analysis

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

An organization’s backup storage target options have changed from simple tape to an almost bewildering number of options such as fully integrated backup appliances, secondary storage systems, cloud storage, object storage and various other software defined storage (SDS) systems. An…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Replication, SDS, SMB
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How To Integrate On-Premises Storage To Cloud Storage?

Posted on June 28, 2017 by George Crump

In response to a polling question in our recent webinar, “Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain,” 27 percent of the respondents indicated their biggest challenge was integrating on-premises storage with the cloud. While general data migration…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Webinar: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud

Posted on June 27, 2017 by George Crump

Join Storage Switzerland and CloudLanes for our on demand webinar as we compare Iron Mountain to the cloud and provide ways to solve the gaps in public cloud storage’s ability to be a viable data preservation service. Register today and…