Cloud Storage is an ideal target for the dormant data that is clogging up primary storage systems. For organizations looking to archive their dormant data to the cloud, there are plenty of vendors offering a solution. But these solutions are…
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What’s The Best Way To Archive Data to the Cloud
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Corruption, DAS, dr, IoT, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Object Storage, SAN, SMB, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: Why Organizations Are Struggling with Getting Applications to the Cloud
Every organization is trying to develop a cloud strategy, but as they try to move workloads to the cloud, they are running into the wall known as the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem says it is impossible for a distributed…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
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Posted in Video
ChalkTalk Video: High-Performance Storage for Machine Learning
Use cases like machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence all require massive amounts of performance. These systems use dedicated GPU accelerators for training machine learning algorithms and massive amounts of network bandwidth. These environments also push today’s all-flash systems…
High-Performance Cloud Integrated Object Storage
Some storage architects have been looking at object storage as the unstructured data heir apparent to legacy network attached storage (NAS). Object storage is cost-effective, scales well and has rich capabilities for data retention and perseveration, but it is incompatible…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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The Value of High Focused Data Protection – HYCU Backup for Nutanix
Anytime an enterprise considers a new platform it has to address one particular requirement; how exactly IT will protect the new platform. If the platform promises enough value, IT may forgo that requirement and cobble together a “best efforts” data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Enterprise File Sync and Share Comes of Age – FileCloud Briefing Note
File sync and share is one of those IT initiatives that administrators would rather avoid and there are what seems to be viable alternatives in the consumer cloud. The challenge with letting users take matters into their own hands is…
Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, FileCloud, FS&S, NAS, NFS, NTFS, Ransomware, SMB
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Posted in Briefing Note
How to Consolidate the Four P’s of Data
The Four P’s of data are performance, protection, preservation and price. IT needs to ensure that each data set receives the right amount of the first three Ps and the right cost for the last one. The problem is the…
StorNext System Evolves to Meet Increasing Data Performance and Storage Needs with StorNext6 Release
Organizations are struggling to deal with the problems of storing, protecting and sharing ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data. There are two primary causes of this struggle. First, too much of their primary data storage is consumed by “cold data” that…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, QOS, Quantum, Replication, SAN, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Amazon RE:Invent is for Storage Professionals
Amazon RE:Invent is right around the corner, and Storage Switzerland will be there for the first time shooting our famous ChalkTalk Videos and attending various analyst meetings and vendor briefings. Amazon AWS’ various storage offerings deserve serious consideration for storage…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Archive, Avere, AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB, SwiftStack
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How Important is Search to Scale-Out NAS?
Finding a file you wrote on your laptop’s hard drive can be difficult. If a file you collaborated on is stored on your department’s file server, it can be even more difficult to find. You just need to remember the…
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