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Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Eric Slack

Dot Hill is a storage array manufacturer that’s built a name for itself primarily in the OEM world. They’ve been manufacturing mid-range storage arrays for over 25 years, currently supporting HP, Lenovo, Stratus, Quantum and a number of other vendors,…

Tagged with: Disk array, Dot Hill, ISCSI, OEM, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note

How Does Shutterfly Keep 80PB of Pictures Safe and Available?

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Eric Slack

Shutterfly is the market leader in digital, personalized photo products, currently serving millions of customers who benefit from unlimited, secure (and free) storage, plus a 100 percent happiness guarantee. They help customers turn their pictures into lasting keepsakes, such as…

Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Disk array, Hardware, Object Storage, RAID, Shutterfly, Storage
Posted in Case Study

What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by George Crump

In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…

Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
Posted in Blog

What Is Dispersed Storage?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by George Crump

Keeping unstructured data available, as data sets continue to grow, is a key challenge for today’s data center. The access requirements of unstructured data often preclude relying 100% on capacity centric tape so higher capacity disk solutions, for many organizations,…

Tagged with: Cleversafe, Disk array, Dispersed storage, Object Storage, RAID, Storage
Posted in Article

A Better Answer than RAID and Replication for Cloud Storage

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud applications and web-based services, such photo sharing sites, create some monumental challenges for a storage infrastructure. Not only must they expand almost without limit, they also need to protect and secure data sets, typically for thousands or millions of…

Tagged with: Cleversafe, Data corruption, Data integrity, Disk array, Erasure code, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
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