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…
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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
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Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: Are You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence Traditional three-tier (compute, network, storage) architectures have served their purpose. In today’s modern data centers, is a storage area network (SAN) the best fit to support your virtualized workloads and cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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Posted in Slideshare
The Turnkey Private Cloud
ZeroStack Briefing Note It is hard to argue with the flexibility of Amazon Web Services and similar offerings. With just a few mouse clicks or API calls, customers can have a completely operational database or web server ready for development…
Tagged with: Backup and Recovery, Cloud, Dev/Test, Hypervisor, Snapshots, ZeroStack
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Posted in Briefing Note
NAS vs. Object: Beating Bit Rot – Examining Data Durability
IT considers data durable if it survives anything that might happen to it because of how the user stores it. Typical data protection systems (e.g. backup, snapshots, replication) protect data from component, media, site, and human failure – or at…
Is VDI making you throw out your Storage?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects bring many benefits to the data center. The operational gains alone justify VDI. The challenge is getting users to embrace it so that IT can experience those operational gains. User adoption often comes down to…
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