There are two storage habits that IT professionals should try to eliminate in 2018. The first is the practice of buying more primary storage when the current primary storage system reaches its capacity. The second is counting on the backup…
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StorageShort: Best Practices for 2018 – Eliminate Bad Practices
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
The Cloud Storage Consistency Problem
Cloud storage like Amazon S3 is scalable and economical, and it is also highly available. But one thing it is not is consistent. Lack of consistency is the primary reason many organizations struggle with cloud migration. Many production applications need…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Meet The CEO of Violin Systems
Ebrahim Abbasi is a turnaround specialist. That is exactly what fit the need of Violin Systems; a turnaround. He was hired prior to Violin’s sale of assets to Quantum Strategic Partners (QSP) and guided it through that period. Now, Violin…
What’s the Role of Object Storage in Backup?
Object storage systems are typically software-based solutions that run on commodity servers, which are clustered to create a single pool of storage. As a result, object storage solutions tend to be very cost-effective from a-price-per-GB perspective. These systems also have…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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Posted in Blog
Three Steps To Ending The Data Protection Nightmare
Recent surveys indicate that over 50% of organizations feel their data protection processes can’t be counted on for consistent, rapid recovery of data. Instead of trying to band-aid the problem, IT needs to develop a holistic strategy. In this “Steak…
Hyperconverged for the Enterprise and the Cloud – Datrium Amazon Product Briefing
Converging compute, storage and networking into a single tier sounds good at first but as the architecture scales and tries to extend into the cloud, problems arise. Most hyperconverged infrastructures are “over-converged.” In most cases, the lowest common denominator is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Datrium, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Scale, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
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The Problem with S3 Bucket Data Leaks
It seems like every couple of weeks there is an announcement of another exposed Amazon S3 bucket. Recently a branch of the military, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), was caught by security firm Upguard with a…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, Data Protection, Hard Drive, Hybrid, Infrastructure, S3
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Product Spotlight: Introducing Tiger Technology’s Tiger Bridge Software
Tiger Technology is a company with deep roots solving the storage management problems of companies in the media and entertainment market. Tiger is now broadening its reach to enterprise data centers as a whole. By proving themselves in the very…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, M&E, Metadata, Migrate, NAS, NTFS, Object Storage, Tape, Tiger Technology
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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Optimizing Amazon EBS with S3
Primary storage vendors have been slow to integrate the public cloud into their solutions. Most pretend the public cloud doesn’t exist and even the vendors that do provide some level of integration to use the cloud only as a giant…
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