For quite some time now, organizations have struggled to keep up with explosive data growth that continues to grow exponentially each year. In addition to the never ending demand for faster application response times, most data now needs to be…
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Break Vendor Lock-in with Data Virtualization
Tagged with: Capacity, Metadata, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Making Object Storage do more
SwiftStack Briefing Note IT knows about object storage for its ability to store trillions of files, or objects, scale to almost limitless capacities and do it inexpensively. Cloud storage providers are accepting the technology with open arms, but enterprises are…
Tagged with: Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Scale, SDS, SwiftStack, Unstructured
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The Rise of the Machines – The Challenge with High File Count Environments
It is a well known fact that unstructured data is growing. But there is an aspect of its growth that may take unsuspecting IT professionals off guard; the number of individual files storage systems need to store today and the…
Tagged with: Caringo, CIFS, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, SMB, Unstructured data
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A Fresh Take on SDS – Quobyte Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions are a dime a dozen. The problem is that only a few solutions truly differentiate themselves from the features that come with the legacy storage hardware systems they are replacing. The key value to SDS…
SimpliVity – Stepping up to the Hyperconverged Challenge
This week Storage Switzerland attended SimpliVity’s first analyst and influencer day. The event provided the company with a chance to impress the press and analysts on the capabilities of the product, gave a glimpse into upcoming capabilities, and provided a…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, performance, SimpliVity
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ChalkTalk Video: Designing Storage for Social Discovery
There is a lot of storage cost for “social discovery” websites – sites that deliver content based on specific search requirements – to store their petabytes of collected data. The need to provide near instant response to user requests but…
Tagged with: Architecture, Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object: Data Archive – Long Term Efficiencies
The longer you keep data, the more it makes sense to move it off of primary storage and into a different kind of system. It makes financial sense, as discussed in the previous blog entry. It also makes sense for…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object Storage – Why Legacy NAS isn’t keeping Pace
When it comes to managing unstructured data the data center has problems. The legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems that it uses to store this data are no longer keeping pace with the demands of the modern data center. As…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Unstructured data, Web Object Scaler
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Hadoop Storage: DAS vs. Shared
As Hadoop scales and the data center begins to count on it, the extra expense required to maintain DAS performance, reliability and scalability often end up being more expensive than the shared storage alternative. In this article we discuss how the multi-faceted capabilities of a scale-out, distributed storage software end up being less expensive than DAS.
Cohesity – Stopping Secondary Storage Sprawl
Data continues to grow and the number of storage systems required to support this growth is growing right along with it. Nowhere is the growth of data worse than in secondary storage, in fact some studies indicate secondary data set…
Tagged with: Big data, Cohesity, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HDD, Metadata, SSD, VM
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