The Use Cases for a Cloud Data Fabric The cloud data fabric (CDF) allows organizations without a cloud pedigree to take full advantage of cloud storage and compute resources. The CDF also enables the organization to move to the cloud…
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Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Migrating Applications to the Cloud
A key component of most organization’s cloud strategy is migrating applications to a cloud provider to reduce dependence on on-premises infrastructure. The organization may want to host the application entirely in the cloud, use the cloud as a failover point…
Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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Will the Operating System Kill SDS? – LINBIT Briefing Note
Software defined storage (SDS) continues to struggle for relevance in a crowded storage marketplace. While a few products are gaining a following, many more have either failed or been sold to other vendors. Additionally, now operating systems also pose a…
Tagged with: Containers, Deduplication, FC, FCoE, HA, Hypervisor, ISCSI, LINBIT, NVMe-oF, RAID, Replication, SDS, Thin provisioning
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Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Data Protection
Most organizations use data protection as their first step into the cloud. Unfortunately, that first step, like many first steps, often results in a stumble. If organizations don’t create a cloud data fabric first, they often use an extension to…
Webinar: Why Cloud Migrations Fail – Learn the Keys to Cloud Success
Many cloud migration and cloud first strategies fail to live up to expectations. The problem is organizations spend too much time on micro issues like product selection and not enough time on big picture items like the cloud strategy’s foundation.…
More than Migration: Developing a Holistic Cloud Strategy
Most organizations are considering how to take advantage of the tremendous resources made available by the cloud. The first step for many of these organizations is to create a cloud migration strategy. As part of this strategy, the organization decides…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas
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Not all Cloud NAS are the Same – Understanding Cloud NAS Architectures
Unprecedented data growth, increased demands for performance and new use cases like analytics and IoT are pushing Network Attached Storage (NAS) to the breaking point. Organizations are looking to cloud storage to help them solve the problem and stop the…
Designing a Cloud Strategy for the Real World – SoftNAS Briefing Note
The path to Hybrid IT is messy. The on-premises data footprint continues to grow at an alarming rate. On-premises applications also continue to sprawl, and the number of critical workloads only increases. Moving an application to the cloud often requires…
Enterprises, You Want Object Storage But Not For Objects
The industry has been espousing the merits of object storage for years now and cloud providers have been quick to adopt the technology. The enterprise, on the other hand, is more cautious, partly because the object storage alternative, Network Attached…
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, file sync and share, Flash, Hadoop, HDD, IoT, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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NVMe Details & Capabilities
The next step in all-flash performance is NVMe. Systems equipped with NVMe support promise to increase performance and lower latency. But, IT professionals want to know if their data centers can take advantage of NVMe and how they should plan…
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