For most organizations, unstructured data is their biggest problem. The need to store all this data is forcing IT to expand primary storage capacities at an alarming rate. Unstructured data not only threatens to break IT budgets, but also force…
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15 Minute Webinar: Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Roadblocks
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Data-as-a-Microservice: Solving the Storage Roadblock to Containerization – Hammerspace Briefing Note
Containers and microservices are on the tipping point of disrupting the market, by serving the agility required by modern DevOps-centric business processes. However, serving persistent storage to containerized applications as they are moved into production is difficult with legacy data…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Hammerspace, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Snapshot
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Using Metadata to Overcome “Data Blindness”
File data is growing so quickly that it is difficult for enterprise storage managers to keep up. A larger volume and greater variety of files is being stored across a range of locations and devices. At the same time, it…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, IoT, Metadata, ML, NAS, Qumulo, SLA, Unstructured data
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How to Improve Analytics Time to Value – Promethium Briefing Note
Data visualization and querying tools are all the rage, as businesses rely more on data analytics to compete more effectively. Meanwhile, the ability to query data is becoming more important in light of the need to adhere to data privacy…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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How to Beat Amazon, Google and Microsoft – Wasabi Briefing Note
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure are commonly referred to as the “big three” cloud providers and many assume their strangle hold on those top spots is very secure. The reality is that the big three in any industry…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Flash, HDD, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Wasabi
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Why Storage is a Virtualization ROI Killer – And How to Fix It
Virtualization brings the advantage of being able to run a multitude of workloads on the same physical infrastructure. In theory, virtualization promises IT professionals better infrastructure utilization and simplified management. The reality that many are finding, however, is in fact…
Lightboard Video: The Benefits of a Cloud-Native File Architecture in a Managed Service Model
Today’s world is multi-cloud, as IT uses a range of cloud service providers to address varying compliance, cost, feature and performance requirements. This results in a highly complex environment for IT to provision, manage and monitor. File storage environments are…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Privacy, Elastifile, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, Scale, SMB
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Using Open Networking to Overcome Roadblocks to the Cloud – Cumulus Networks Briefing Note
Organizations are moving to private, hybrid and public cloud so they can create more flexible and more cost-efficient IT operations. The goal is to leverage software which interacts with quality, commodity hardware to create a programmable data center. Underpinning these…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Container, Cumulus Networks, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Metadata, NOS, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Why Flash Should Be a Part of Your Data Protection Infrastructure
The time has come. Flash should be a part of an organization’s data protection architecture. The rapid recovery features available in most data protection software all claim in some form to be able to instantiate an application’s volume on the…
Storage Technology Showcase Coming to Dallas-Fort Worth
The storage industry lacks a multi-vendor conference that focuses more on educating IT professionals than on selling gear. Today, most IT conferences are sponsored by a single vendor (VMworld, Dell Technologies, HPE Discover, NetApp Insight and Hitachi Next) there is…
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