Storage refreshes are something that every data center goes through. However, the most painful are NAS refreshes. It is not just the painful migration of data from the old NAS to the new NAS but also the tedious process of…
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Paper: 3 Steps To Ending The Primary Storage Nightmare
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…
Solving NAS Migration Pain – Komprise 2.7 Briefing Note
Every few years an organization needs to purchase a new network attached storage (NAS) system. The old system either has reached its capacity limits or no longer meets the performance expectations of new users and applications. The options for a…
New Whitepaper: Understanding Cloud NAS Architectures
When organizations first start to leverage cloud resources they typically try to use the cloud to solve their biggest problems first; data protection and unstructured data management. The rapid and unprecedented growth of unstructured data has made both of these…
Can the Cloud Save IT From the Secondary Storage Deluge?
Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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Creating a Cloud Extension Instead of a Cloud Migration Strategy – Nexenta Briefing Note
As data centers consider the role cloud compute and storage will have in their organization’s IT strategy, they look for solutions to extend what they already have, not solutions that require them to start over in the cloud. One of…
Tagged with: Block, Cloud, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, Nexenta, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, SMB, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Flash to Flash to Cloud – Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night: How to keep up with application performance demand How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store How to protect that data so…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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Protecting The Data-Driven Organization – Imanis Data Briefing Note
Most organizations make decisions based on data. In recent years, the amount of data that these organizations can access to help make those decisions has exploded. More data, though, won’t help unless the organization can analyze that data. It became…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, DAS, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Migration, NAS, NoSQL, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, SAN
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Are Hybrid Arrays the New Secondary Storage
Before all-flash hybrid arrays existed, systems made up of flash, and high performance hard disk drives were the go-to option for organizations looking to solve performance problems. However, hybrid systems’ dominance was short lived as all-flash arrays came to market…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Replication, Tegile, Virtualization
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Webinar: Enterprise Cloud Migration – 4 Problems to Solve
The biggest challenge any enterprise has to get over when migrating workloads to the cloud is SCALE! Large organizations have massive amounts of data; thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of terabytes of data. With this level of scale, migration…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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