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…
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Backup Software, Hardware Integration Challenges – StorageCraft Buys Exablox
Data protection is made of three components; the software that identifies and copies the data needing protection, the hardware that will store the protected copy and the IT professionals that drive the process. When two of these components are combined,…
Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Exablox, IoT, Object Storage, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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Posted in Briefing Note
StorageShort: Will Machine Data Kill Backup?
One of the hardest things to protect is a server with millions of files on it. In the early days of my career, we specifically asked customers if they had such a server so we could develop special procedures to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, IoT, Object Storage, Replication
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Does NAS Still Make Sense? – Panzura Briefing Note
When network attached storage (NAS) first came to market its initial use case was to store user data, typically found in file server home directories. All users wanted to be able to do is store and share data between a…
The Storage Challenges to IT Agility
IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come…
StorageShort: The Impact of NAS Sprawl
Network Attached Storage (NAS) are ideal for storing unstructured data, especially user home directories. But these systems tend to fill up and organizations end up buying additional units, in some cases dozens, which leads to NAS Sprawl. The situation is…
Tagged with: Big data, IoT, NAS, performance, Quantum, Sprawl, Unstructured data
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Overcoming the Fear of Managing User Data
Despite all the attention big data and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives currently get, IT professionals still site users as one of the primary causes of unstructured data growth. Despite the fact machines and devices can create data non-stop, user…
Re-thinking NAS to Control Unstructured Data
Designing a storage architecture scalable enough to hold all of an organization’s data is a challenge in and of itself. But unstructured data is doing more thant just grow, it is also becoming more varied in type and it is…
Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage
While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the…
The Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments?
For most High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, high performance storage is a critical component in the infrastructure. The storage systems need to feed the compute infrastructure as quickly as possible. With object storage improving its performance and adding flash to…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Lake, Flash, HPC, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, performance
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