One of the first announcements out of the chute at Dell EMC World 2017 is an updated version of Data Domain’s Virtual Edition (DD VE). The new version runs in both Amazon and Azure clouds and is designed to provide…
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Dell EMC Delivers Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.1 for In-Cloud Data Protection
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Domain, Dell, EMC, Encryption, Flash, Replication, Software Defined
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Modern Applications and Object Storage
New applications like Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, Hadoop, Splunk and Spark are the catalyst behind data center modernization. These apps provide the scale and flexibility that increase user engagement, enable better decision making and unleash more human creativity. But these solutions…
Tagged with: Container, Dell, EMC, IoT, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Understanding Object Storage Consumption Models
Object storage is quickly becoming the standard for storing large amounts of unstructured data. One of the most appealing aspects of object storage is its flexibility that spans a variety of storage infrastructure configurations and storage locations. This flexibility is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, EMC, Encryption, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Evidence Management Use Case
Possibly the most onerous challenge an organization can face is litigation, whether the legal challenge is against another entity or from an individual, another organization or a government agency that is mounting a legal challenge against the organization. The resulting…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, E-discovery, EMC, Encryption, Metadata, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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A Graceful Exit for Centera
Organizations have always had applications requiring the storage of their data and in some cases for that data to be immutable. In the late 1990’s, optical jukeboxes were the state of the art for this type of storage. They replaced…
Object Storage vs Tape and Object
An object storage system is a perfect place to keep data that needs storage for a long time. It also works in concert with a tape system if a customer wishes to do so. Why and how you might do…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Disk, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, Replication, Tape
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What Are the Top 3 Reasons Enterprises Should Consider Object Storage
Enterprises should standardize on object storage for almost all (95 percent of their unstructured data and limit their network attached storage systems (NAS) storage to only the most active data that requires high performance. The payoff to your organization will…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Dell, EMC, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication
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Can Object Storage Help You?
To some, object storage systems have been something off in the distance. Other people may use it, but they’re not sure it really helps them. Add the perceived requirement of changing user behavior and you have a stalemate. But what…
What Exactly is Object Storage?
Object storage is a method to store data. Most IT professionals are familiar with the more traditional Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file system approach. Both are a way of organizing and storing data on a storage system. POSIX mimics…
Tagged with: Dell, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, POSIX, Redundancy, Tape, Unstructured data
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Product Analysis: Scalable NAS for the real world: Redefining NAS Storage
NAS systems have come a long way since SMB & NFS were invented in 1984, and the Dell Fluid File System is proof of that. If one hasn’t looked at a modern day NAS system, this would be a good…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, NAS, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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