Spending top dollar to store older fixed content on the typical network attached storage system (NAS) filer is more than just a waste of money — it’s actually spending more to get less. Using an object-based storage system may be…
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NAS vs. Object: The Dollar Per GB Challenge
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object Storage – Why Legacy NAS isn’t keeping Pace
When it comes to managing unstructured data the data center has problems. The legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems that it uses to store this data are no longer keeping pace with the demands of the modern data center. As…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Unstructured data, Web Object Scaler
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MeetTheCEO: Getting to Zero With Vision Solutions’ Alan Arnold
You can call this edition of Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCTO when we talk to the Chief Technical Officer for Vision Solutions Alan Arnold. As Executive Vice President and CTO, Arnold is responsible for the company’s global technology, services…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, dr, HA, MeetTheCEO, Migration, Replication, Vision Solutions
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Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication Need to Keep Pace
ExaGrid Briefing Note The performance and capacity capabilities of production storage are increasing to meet the demands of the virtualized data center. These systems can now scale to support highly dense virtual machine populations and the never-ending demand for more…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, performance, Recovery, VM
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Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”…
What is Tape? – A History and a Future
Tape, as a data storage medium in computers, is a technology that is over 60 years old and was first used to backup data from a Univac I system back in 1951. It continued to be used to back up…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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What is Object Storage and what can you use it for?
For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
Why Tape still matters today
In our column, “What’s Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, my colleague George Crump discussed how cloud storage can be a cost effective alternative to onsite storage for active data, but where cold data is concerned it becomes a…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Overcoming the All-Flash Array Implementation Challenges
Eliminating “waits” allows customers, users, and applications to interact with the IT infrastructure more fluidly. As a result, IT professionals are focused on improving response times, and storage is getting much of the attention. The demand for performance is accelerating…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Cloudistics, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Migrate, MLC, NAND, SSD
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The CryptoLocker Legacy – Another Reason for Strong Data Protection
When IT professionals think of data protection, they think of protecting that data from accidental deletion or catastrophic loss from a disk array failure. The goal of the data protection process is to maintain access to data when these events…
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