Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…
Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…
The cloud offers a number of significant benefits for IT organizations, especially flexibility, as it allows companies to expand resource capacity on a moment’s notice. Cloud-based storage and services also provide a way to shift infrastructure costs from upfront, capital…
Using consumer-grade flash drives in datacenter environments is a common practice for saving money. So it wasn’t a big surprise that two-thirds of attendees on a recent StorageSwiss webinar reported that they currently use both enterprise and consumer SSDs in…
The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…
Storage upgrades and consolidation are a way of life for the modern IT professional. One of the most challenging but overlooked aspects of an upgrade is data migration, a process that’s not as simple as copying files and other data…
Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that addresses the issues most company IT organizations…
In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…
Snapshots are a standard feature of most storage systems today. They offer a remarkable ability to save a file at specific points in time without actually making a copy of it; in fact, they’re also referred to as “point in…
Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…
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