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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

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

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, IoT, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Qumulo, Retention, Scale-Out
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Lightboard Video: Rearchitecting Your File System for Unstructured Data and the Cloud

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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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Reduxio Focuses on Container-Native Storage

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Making Persistent Storage for Production Kubernetes Attainable Containers have become highly popular among DevOps shops due to their advantages in the areas of agility, simplicity and scalability. These same qualities make them attractive candidates for hosting modern applications such as…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, ML, NVMe, NVMeoF, Reduxio, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, Virtualization, VMware
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Axellio’s FabricXpress All-NVMe Server for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

A Validated Hybrid Strategy for the Most Demanding Environments The hybrid cloud is the nirvana that most enterprises are chasing. The problem is that most enterprises have not been able to standardize their infrastructure for centralized management. In a previous…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Kasten Data Protection and Mobility for Stateful Kubernetes

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Serving Enterprise Data Management for Production Container Environments at Scale Containers have a role in enterprise data centers beyond their initial concentration in DevOps use cases. In order to support production workloads such as relational databases, the container environment must…

Tagged with: Application Centric, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Kasten, Migration
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SlideShare: Complete Your Cloud Transformation – Store Your Data in The Cloud (and live to tell about it)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are moving to the cloud but according to a recent Osterman Research study, only 14% of companies have completed that transformation. The study clearly identifies data storage as an area where IT can easily accelerate their cloud transformation journey.…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HubStor, Migration, ML, Osterman Research
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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Lightboard Video: Hybrid Cloud for Media and Entertainment

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Companies in industries such as the media and entertainment vertical are looking to complement their on-premises data centers with the use of cloud services. The cloud can help to facilitate cross-site collaboration, remote workers, expansion into new regions, and more…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Qumulo, Retention
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Breaking Backup with SaaS

Posted on June 27, 2019 by George Crump

Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…