Enterprises should standardize on object storage for almost all (95 percent of their unstructured data and limit their network attached storage systems (NAS) storage to only the most active data that requires high performance. The payoff to your organization will…
Object storage should be a compelling alternative to traditional enterprise network attached storage systems. However its adoption is slow. Most enterprises just continue to expand NAS infrastructures despite the fact object storage is a better fit for unstructured data storage…
Datos IO is the first product designed specifically to meet the cloud-scale backup and recovery needs of modern, scalable, non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and cloud-native databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft DocumentDB and others. These…
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products have significantly grown in popularity in the last few years, leading many vendors to adopt a hyperconverged approach. VMware is adding to its portfolio a series of products that make its product more suitable to hyperconverged…
Many organizations are adopting a “cloud-first” methodology. This means the first destination an organization will consider when looking at a home for a new application is whether the cloud is a viable candidate to host that application. If the cloud…
Quantum Scalar Briefing Note Organizations today face two major issues in dealing with the ever-rising tide of unstructured data. First, where to cost effectively store it. Second, how to ensure proper protection of data from loss and threats such as…
A lot of people worry that a deep archive in the cloud will be about as useful as the boxes in the deepest part of your attic. The data will be stored in an economical way and the cloud vendor…
It is hard enough to convince organizations to virtualize their mission critical applications, now IT professionals are facing the challenge of convincing their organizations to containerize those mission critical applications. Virtualization frees mission critical applications of being bound to a…
Object Storage promises many things – unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the…
Cloud storage is a broad term that covers a lot of different storage types. Generally it should be reserved for storage that resides outside of an organization’s data center. Typically your data goes to one of the larger public cloud…
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