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End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…

Webinar – Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Posted on September 15, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Webinar – The 7 key reasons why Object Storage lowers Storage TCO

Posted on September 12, 2014 by George Crump

Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge

Posted on September 11, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers are ready for increased data efficiency that they can get from primary storage deduplication and compression, especially for flash based storage systems. The cost of flash justifies these data reduction technologies and flash’s high performance actually enables their…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Integration, Permabit, storage array, Tier-1
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Storage Q&A: Is The Next Generation Data Center the “End-Game” for IT?

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The next generation data center is here. Highly virtualized servers, extreme VM density, thriving on flexibility, low cost and efficiency. So that’s the thumbnail look at this new data center concept. Here to talk about it in a little more…

Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A

How to overcome the four obstacles to Cloud Storage

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Business executive and IT professionals alike often share many of the same concerns when it comes to the use of cloud storage. But generally, there are four primary obstacles that businesses need to address before embracing the use of the…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, Nasuni, performance, RPO, Security
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Storage Q&A with Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The Next Generation Data Center is a concept that companies like SolidFire use to describe an ideal of storage performance, scale, efficiency and management in multi-tenant cloud environments – public and private clouds. But more than an ideal, companies in…

Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Quality of service, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A

Next Generation Storage needs integration, scale and performance

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Various industry sources estimate that data is doubling approximately every two years and the largest subset of that growth is coming from unstructured data. User files, images, rich multimedia, machine sensor data and anything that lives outside of a database…