If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this reality and most, if not all, are including capabilities so that allows for the transfer of storage to the object…
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StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Monitoring VMware with Artificial Intelligence
SIOS Briefing Note There is no way we can optimize all the VMs in this world — and yet they need to be optimized. The sooner we all accept these two facts, the sooner we can move on to something…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, HA, performance, SAN, SIOS iQ, SQL, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: Strategies for Hybrid Cloud Storage
The hybrid cloud approach is the storage option that gives customers the best cost, flexibility and scalability today, says Douglas O’Flaherty from IBM when he spoke with George Crump at VMworld 2016. One great way to manage cost is to…
ChalkTalk Video: Finally Solving Backup’s Four Biggest Problems
Getting data off-site, managing long term data retention, providing business continuity and backup verification have been some of the hardest problems for backup professionals to solve. The cloud provides some relief but it, by itself, is not enough. The right…
ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming the Cloud Privatization Problem
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid, Tegile, Virtualization, VM, VMworld2016
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The Storage Architecture Behind The Thin Provisioned NetApp
Thin provisioning a NetApp can create as many problems as it solves. As mentioned in previous blogs, thin provisioning in this context refers to the act of clearing out older, unused files and putting them somewhere else. Essentially “thinning” the…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Latency, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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Video: Using DR to Move to The Cloud and Adopt New Technology
The cloud seems to be the ultimate destination for today’s data center. It can be used to support peaking workloads and for disaster recovery. The challenge is how to get data to the cloud so it can be leveraged for…
Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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Multi-Cloud DRaaS and Mobility
Zerto Briefing Note IT Professionals are under constant pressure to meet tighter and tighter recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). While traditional backup has a role to play in meeting these objectives, replication is moving more to…
Tagged with: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, General-purpose, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, VMware, Zerto
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Spectra Logic Takes on Glacier
Spectra Logic is taking on Glacier (Amazon’s product for cold storage) in both senses of that term. Another way to say it is they are in “coopetitiion” with Glacier. First, BlackPearl is Spectra Logic’s object storage system that supports both…
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