Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…
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Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger
Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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Simplifying File Migration and Modernization
There are plenty of solutions that promise to help an organization migrate, or transform, data in the cloud era. The problem is most of these solutions are just too complicated and try to do too much. Most organizations simply want…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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How to Manage Data Without Putting it in Jail
Data growth requires a response. For some organizations, that response is upgrading to a more scalable higher performing NAS or an on-premises object storage. For others it is moving some data sets to public cloud storage. Historically, these migrations are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, ROI
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StorageShort: How to Overcome the Fear of File Deletion
The statistic that 85% of data in most data centers has not been accessed in the last year is often cited, and for the most part it is very accurate. Organizations create more data than ever and retain that information…
A File System in the Cloud vs. A Cloud File System
There are two types of cloud based file systems. One is designed to extend cloud storage into the organization. The other is designed to allow organizations to run applications in the cloud but use more traditional file protocols like NFS…
Webinar: Three Steps to Eliminating Storage Silos
As an organization grows the number of use cases the data center needs to support increases with it. What starts out as a NAS for file sharing, moves to a SAN for database applications, and then storage for data protection.…
SlideShare: The Four Requirements of a Cloud-Era File System
File systems are the heart of most organizations. They’re how critical unstructured data assets are stored, organized, and shared. But with files exploding in size and quantity as well as the cloud offering potentially cheaper and more scalable storage than…
High Performance NAS in an Object World – Rozo Briefing Note
Object Storage dominates the unstructured data discussion. But many organizations need high performance NFS, SMB and even Apple’s AFP to meet the demand of various use cases in markets like M&E, Science, HPC and Oil and Gas. The more traditional…
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Rozo, Scale-Out, SMB
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NetApp Holds Annual Conference Amidst Mandalay Bay Shooting
If NetApp handles its business as well as it handled Insight 2017 – held in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas – NetApp will do just fine. The conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, went…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, GreenQloud, HCI, Hypervisor, Migration, NAS, NetApp, NetApp Insight, Replication, SolidFire, Spinnaker
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How to Use Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage for Object Storage Backup
An on-premises object storage solution is a versatile data platform for enterprises that can be used to archive old data to and used as a backup target and even replace some NAS use cases. But one of the challenges with…
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