Organizations struggling to store and manage an ever rising flood of unstructured data turned to the cloud and object storage in order to contain or reduce costs. But, over time many of them discovered that increasing, recurring costs to store…
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Making Object Storage Simpler at Petabyte Scale with Intelligent Management
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, CSP, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SDS, SMB
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
NAS vs. Object: Supporting Next Apps
Today’s apps aren’t your father’s apps. Applications developed today take for granted things that were not even thinkable not that long ago — especially in the storage space. The scale that is needed by modern day applications was never envisioned…
SlideShare: 4 Ways to Improve NetApp Storage Performance Without Replacing It
Unstructured data is growing rapidly and IT planners are searching for ways to cost effectively store this data. While most unstructured data is inactive, a small portion of it is very active and the applications using that portion demand very…
Webinar: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
Is Unstructured Data Breaking your NAS?
Today’s issues with unstructured data is vastly different than the unstructured data problems of the past. While users still play a roll, machines like sensors, cameras and other servers are generating most of the unstructured data we have to deal…
Overcoming the All-Flash Array Mentality to VDI
When it comes to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects, all-flash arrays are quickly moving from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” component of the project. The all-flash required phenomenon is driven partly by users, but largely by…
NetApp Finally Pivots
Last month I attended Storage Field Day 9, which included a two-hour presentation at NetApp headquarters. My summary statement of what I learned from the briefing is that NetApp is pivoting. By that I mean that they seem to have…
Moving Data Between Clouds w/AltaVault & OnCloud
NetApp is doing some truly interesting things under their OnCloud heading, including Cloud OnTap, Private Storage for Cloud, and AltaVault. While some of them are definitely OnTap centric and the kind of thing we have come to expect from NetApp,…
Webinar: 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve IT challenges of all types. When it comes to storage, IT mostly looks at the cloud for backup, archive and occasionally for collaboration. But not for primary storage.…
Qnext’s FileFlex Virtualizes File Access across Disparate Storage Infrastructures and Devices
Modern organizations today, regardless of size, are faced with many laws and government regulations that require them to maintain control and security of their data as well as properly protecting that data. At the same time, they have to meet…
Tagged with: BYOD, Cloud, file sync and share, FileFlex, MSP, Qnext, Shadow IT, SMB, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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