Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
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What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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Storage for High-Performance Computing Gets Enterprise Ready – Panasas Briefing Note
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is the proving grounds to test a storage system’s ability to handle mixed workloads. While HPC is an important market it is relatively small, at least in comparison to the broader enterprise data center storage market. With…
What to do When Taking Over a Data Protection Nightmare – One College’s Journey to Simplified Data Protection
Data protection is hard. The process has to, in someway, interact with almost every server, virtual machine, application, network interface and storage system. The problem is many data centers make the situation worse by buying multiple data protection software and…
Can Data Diversity Be Solved By a Single Storage System? – Quobyte Briefing Note
The modern data center has to deal with different use cases ranging from applications running inside of virtual machines or containers to massive amounts of unstructured data created by both users and devices. This data diversity almost always forces the…
Tagged with: Container, Data Lake, dr, Erasure code, IoT, Metadata, NFS, Quobyte, Replication, SMB, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
StorNext System Evolves to Meet Increasing Data Performance and Storage Needs with StorNext6 Release
Organizations are struggling to deal with the problems of storing, protecting and sharing ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data. There are two primary causes of this struggle. First, too much of their primary data storage is consumed by “cold data” that…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, QOS, Quantum, Replication, SAN, Tape
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Posted in Product Analysis
Open Software Defined Storage Becomes Enterprise Ready – SUSE Enterprise Storage Update
Software Defined Storage vendors claim “no vendor lock-in” as one of their mantras. While these solutions do allow the intermixing of various vendor hardware, the organization adopting the SDS solution is hopelessly locked into the SDS vendor from a software…
More than a Re-Brand: HDS Becomes Hitachi Vantara
The big news out of Hitachi Next 2017 is the company is rebranding itself as Hitachi Vantara, combining the properties of Hitachi Data Systems, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group into a single integrated business. The goal of the new organization…
Fix Files or Move To Objects – Qumulo Briefing Note
Object storage has been getting a lot of attention lately. This new way of storing data does not require the old metaphors of volumes and folders. Data is stored in a flat architecture and then each object (file) is assigned…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Fabric, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Replication, Software Defined, Unique ID
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Move Compute Closer to Storage – NGD Systems Briefing Note
Modern applications like big data analytics, facial recognition, IoT and video streaming, as well as next generation applications like artificial intelligence and machine learning, place unique demands on both the compute and storage infrastructures. Most of the modern and next…
Tagged with: Big data, CPU, Flash, FMS2017, Hyperscale, IoT, NAND, NGD Systems, NVMe, PCIe, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Taking Advantage of Object Stores Like EMC ECS – Right Now
Object storage is the storage methodology for the future of unstructured data and more. Next generation applications are able to write directly to object storage and take advantage of its sophisticated resource management capabilities. But enterprises have unstructured data problems…
Tagged with: Cloud, ECS, IoT, Malware, NAS, NFS, NTP, NTP Software, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, Unique ID, Unstructured data
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Posted in Product Spotlight
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