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Why is Unstructured Data So Important?

Posted on July 24, 2017 by wcurtispreston

A lot of the advancements happening in storage seem to be for unstructured data. Why is that? Have all of the problems for databases been solved? It’s not like databases are no longer important. But what does seem to be…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Facial Recognition, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Data Preservation vs. Data Archive

Posted on July 13, 2017 by George Crump

Eighty percent of an organization’s data is active and 15% of it really matters. Archiving is the management of the 80%. Data preservation is the management 15%. While organizations often need help identifying the 80% of data that is not…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, Replication, SMB, Tape, Virtual
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The State of Storage Architectures

Posted on July 13, 2017 by George Crump

Storage architectures evolved from the legacy scale-up architectures to scale-out architectures. Scale-out architectures evolved into hyperconverged architectures. The data center is also evolving, of course, but at an even faster pace. The problem is all this storage evolution has not…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Kaminario, NVMe, Redundancy, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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StorageShort: What Services Should MSPs Add To Their Portfolios?

Posted on July 12, 2017 by George Crump

Managed Service Providers (MSP) are under pressure to add more services to their portfolios. Most started with backup and now are looking to add services like application hosting and virtual desktop as a service. Not only are these services complicated…

Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, MSP, Replication
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Integration Primary and Secondary Storage – Reduxio Briefing Note

Posted on July 7, 2017 by George Crump

In most data centers, there are two distinct types of storage. Primary storage to respond to the needs of performance demanding applications and secondary storage to maintain a backup and provide secondary copies of the primary storage. These two tiers…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Migration, RAM, Ransomware, Reduxio, RPO, RTO
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White Paper – Can You Use The Cloud for Long Term Data Preservation?

Posted on July 6, 2017 by George Crump

Most organizations have a subset of data they need to preserve. Preservation is different than archiving. Preservation means that the data can’t be changed, must always be readable and the organization needs to know who is accessing it. Often there…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, Scale, SMB, Virtual
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Is it Time to Retire Your NAS?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

It’s time to retire Network Attached Storage (NAS) – at least as we know it. These systems, glorified file servers, are over two decades old. In that time, users have become more mobile, and organizations more diverse. What seemed like…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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A Private Cloud That’s More Than A Backup Appliance – Cloudian Product Analysis

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

An organization’s backup storage target options have changed from simple tape to an almost bewildering number of options such as fully integrated backup appliances, secondary storage systems, cloud storage, object storage and various other software defined storage (SDS) systems. An…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Replication, SDS, SMB
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Webinar: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud

Posted on June 27, 2017 by George Crump

Join Storage Switzerland and CloudLanes for our on demand webinar as we compare Iron Mountain to the cloud and provide ways to solve the gaps in public cloud storage’s ability to be a viable data preservation service. Register today and…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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What is Open Converged Infrastructure?

Posted on June 27, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Converged infrastructure (CI) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) are common terms, but open converged infrastructure (OCI) is new. What is it and how is it different from the other architectures? This article will start with an examination of the similarities and…