Then and Now Over the last decade, organizations have experienced massive changes in the data center and the storage industry. Workloads found in modern data centers today are vastly different from what was common back in the days of dedicated…
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Solve Your Storage Headache – Unlimited Scale but Controlled – Qumulo Core 2.6 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Scale, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: You Bought All-Flash, Now What?
Have you made the jump to all-flash storage? Are you planning to? If so this webinar is for you. We will look at what’s next after (or before) the jump to all-flash. An all-flash array brings many benefits to the…
What are the Advantages of a Purpose-Built Cloud?
Some cloud backup providers are starting to build their own clouds for their purposes. Is that a good idea? Shouldn’t they use more general-purpose cloud providers like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft? What value can be derived from having your backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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Recovery From Ransomware
Ransomware, or the people who use it, are very successful in both infecting systems and extracting money from the organizations impacted by the infection. Most organizations we speak to face a ransomware infection multiple times per year, so if your…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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How to Enable the Cloud to Master Physics – SwiftStack Briefing Note
The problem with the public cloud has always been physics. We like the idea of being able to access our data anytime anywhere, but the reality often falls short. It takes a lot of horsepower to get data from point…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Google, Hybrid, M&E, Replication, SwiftStack, Sync
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Cloud Compute Needs Enterprise Storage – Nimble Briefing Note
Cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Azure all provide both compute and storage services. Compute is used to host applications and storage is used to store data. The cloud is tailor made for providing compute because applications that are multi-threaded…
Tagged with: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Bursting, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Nimble, performance, Reliability, Replication
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Primary Storage Refresh is More than Flash
Primary storage refresh projects usually start from some combination of need for more performance, more capacity or because the storage system is coming off of maintenance. A key feature IT professionals look for in new primary storage system is flash.…
Got Servers? – Get Storage – NooBaa Briefing Note
One of the requirements facing buyers of software defined storage (SDS) is that, by definition, it still requires hardware. SDS Vendors deliver some solutions in the form of either a dedicated appliance, some offer flexibility by specifying a Hardware Compatibility…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, NooBaa, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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Cloud Storage: Graveyard to Goldmine – HubStor Briefing Note
The appeal of cloud storage is increasingly hard for businesses to resist. Major providers continue to drive down costs and cloud gateway providers are making it easier and easier to get your data to the cloud. The problem is most…
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