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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on March 9, 2018 by George Crump

The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on February 27, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on February 5, 2018 by George Crump

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. The Unstructured Data Vault

Posted on January 15, 2018 by George Crump

There are two primary use cases for NAS. The first demands high performance when using NAS as primary storage to host application data and virtual machines. Modern NAS systems address this use case. The second, and more common, use is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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Webinar: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on December 18, 2017 by George Crump

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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What’s the Role of Object Storage in Backup?

Posted on December 8, 2017 by George Crump

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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Three Steps To Ending The Data Protection Nightmare

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, dr, Houston, Komprise, NAS, Rubrik, Storage, Workshop
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Making the NAS to Object Storage Conversion Work – Cloudian HyperFile Briefing Note

Posted on December 6, 2017 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file servers have long outlived their usefulness. They’re expensive and don’t scale easily, making them a poor fit for many use cases. Nonetheless, they’ve enjoyed a virtual monopoly in unstructured data storage. When 100TB was…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Understanding Gartner’s Object Storage Quadrant

Posted on November 10, 2017 by George Crump

Analyst firm Gartner released its latest version of its Magic Quadrant for object storage that attempts to rank and organize the distributed file system and object storage system market. Instead, it really creates more questions and confusion instead of providing…