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Enterprise File Sync and Share vs. A File Strategy

Posted on April 28, 2017 by George Crump

Users want their files available to them at all times, on any device and at any location. Organizations are scrambling to implement enterprise file sync and share products answer the demand before users go off and do it themselves with…

Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, File Sharing, File Strategy, file sync and share, IBM, Latency
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Is It Safe to Preserve Data in The Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2017 by wcurtispreston

We are living in the information age, and modern companies rely on their data more than any other time in history. Many companies are leveraging the cloud for preserving this vast ocean of data, but some companies are concerned about…

Tagged with: AWS, Bit Rot, Cloud, CloudLanes, Data corruption, Encryption, HA, Ransomware, Snapshot
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Moving from Cloud Archive to Cloud Preservation – CloudLanes Briefing Note

Posted on April 27, 2017 by George Crump

The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…

Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Encryption, FC, ISCSI, NFS, Replication, S3, SMB, Virtual, VTL
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StorageShort: Will Enterprise File Sync and Share Encryption Really Protect You?

Posted on April 26, 2017 by George Crump

Ask any Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) vendor if they provide encryption and you are going to get a emphatic, “Yes!” They will claim end-to-end encryption and let you assume that you are covered. But are you really? Certainly…

Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, IBM, Latency
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ChalkTalk Video: How Can Object Storage Solve The Ransomware Problem?

Posted on April 17, 2017 by George Crump

Ransomware is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations, regardless of size. It breaks backup because the data you are most likely to pay to un-encrypt is the data that your organization has been changing since the last backup occurred.…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Caringo, dr, Encryption, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2017 by George Crump

The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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How to Deliver Files Anywhere and Security Everywhere

Posted on April 4, 2017 by George Crump

Users seem to be everywhere and they can carry their compute in multiple forms (laptop, tablet, smartphone) at all times. They also want to have their files, the subset corporate data they work on, with them at all times. Also,…

Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, file sync and share, Flash, IBM, Latency, Shadow IT, VPN
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Understanding Object Storage Consumption Models

Posted on April 4, 2017 by George Crump

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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What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server

Posted on April 3, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…