Metadata is data about data. In the case of files, metadata includes information like the last access date and last modified date. An archive or backup solution may use metadata to track the location of the file, or it may…
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Are You Storing Data in the Cloud? Where do You Store Metadata?
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Posted in Blog
Is Your Storage Ready for the Data-Driven Economy? – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Organizations need to re-think their storage architectures for the data-driven economy. How an organization captures, stores, and analyzes data, can dictate how successful it might be in this new economic model where data drives organizations. The data-driven economy is not…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, AS, Cloud, Container, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Hard disk drive, Retention, Scale, SwiftStack, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Virtual Instruments Briefing Note – Virtana Announcement
The data center, in most cases, is a mixture of legacy and modern applications that exist, both on-premises and in the cloud. To provide organizations with a competitive advantage, IT needs to use and manage these resources efficiently. IT professionals…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Migration, ML, Virtana, Virtual Instruments
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Should You Use Image-Based Backups on Unstructured Data?
Most data protection applications are not backing up unstructured data correctly. The massive increase not only in the capacity of unstructured data but also in the number of files represented within the data set makes protecting it difficult. The large…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Understanding the Challenges That AI at Scale Creates
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in its infancy and the requirements it places on the storage architectures that support these workloads are not widely understood. As a result, an organization starting an AI initiative can initially get away with using an…
Product Spotlight: Veeam Availability Orchestrator Version 2
Organizations can no longer count on a “best efforts” disaster recovery strategy. They also can’t afford to take a “recover everything instantly” strategy. IT must balance the recovery requirements of the organization with the realities of the budget to make…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
Posted in Product Spotlight
Posted in Product Spotlight
SlideShare: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape
To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
When is Object Storage NOT the Answer?
Object storage plays an essential role in today’s data center, but that does not mean that organizations need to give up on their network-attached storage (NAS) solutions. While the capacity demands of unstructured data are growing at alarming rates, the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Qumulo, Retention, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
A Better Convergence for Converged Data Protection?
Converged data protection solutions attempt to manage all backup software and protection storage management operations from a single interface. These solutions also tend to be scale-out, addressing another big backup pain point, scaling and managing the backup repository. The challenge…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Converged, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Migration, Nutanix, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service
The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
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