One of the popular use cases for Windows Server 2008 is as a file server but on January 14th Microsoft stopped supporting the 2008 version of the operating system. Those using Server 2012 as a file server can assume that…
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Windows 2008 File Server? What to do now
Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Making the Hybrid Cloud Work for Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is already taking advantage of the cloud, but most of the workflows have been rendering, simulation or other ephemeral use cases. The advantages of using the cloud for more permanent project tasks though should…
Solving the Billion Files Problem
Most file system management tools – whether they are for reporting, governance, backup, archiving, migration, cloud bursting, or content classification – start developing performance problems when the total number of files and directories exceeds a hundred million. The performance challenges…
Tagged with: Flash, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, NVMe, Starfish Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Lightboard Video: What Are the Requirements for Next-Generation File Systems?
Organizations need to process unprecedented amounts of unstructured data but are questioning the ability of legacy file systems to meet this need. In this Lightboard Video, Eric Scollard, Qumulo’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and George Crump, Lead Analyst at…
Lightboard Video: Qumulo’s Performance Architecture
One of the biggest challenges facing file systems that store petabyte-scale unstructured datasets is continuing to provide high-performance storage services. In this Lightboard Video, Tommy Unger, Data Scientist and Product Manager with Qumulo, joined Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, George Crump,…
SlideShare: The Top Four Challenges of Data Analytics and How to Solve Them
Data analytics and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have become mission-critical, but today, it is simply taking too long to arrive at insights. 90% of the time that it takes to generate insights lies in human labor, and that labor is…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!
Windows File Servers are popular for a number of reasons. First, they are easy to setup, any Administrator that has stood up a Windows Server can create a Windows File Server. Second, the software is essentially free with most licensing…
Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Lightboard Video: The Power of File Storage in the Cloud
In this Lightboard Video, Joel Groen, Director of Cloud Go-to-Market for Qumulo, joined Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump, to discuss cloud file storage requirements. Legacy architectures aren’t suited to provide a seamless “lift and shift” of workloads…
SwiftStack for AI, ML and DL
How to Build a Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline for AI, ML and DL Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are experiencing rapid adoption in a number of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, pharmaceutical drug research, predictive maintenance,…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Deep Learning, DL, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, SwiftStack
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Posted in Briefing Note
Lightboard Video: Rearchitecting Your File System for Unstructured Data and the Cloud
Unstructured data has exploded in terms of the how much of it companies are generating and storing. Also unstructured data has increased in value to the organization. Legacy file systems typically used to store unstructured data can’t meet this growth…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, IoT, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Qumulo, Retention, Unstructured data
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