Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…
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NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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A Private Cloud That’s More Than A Backup Appliance – Cloudian Product Analysis
An organization’s backup storage target options have changed from simple tape to an almost bewildering number of options such as fully integrated backup appliances, secondary storage systems, cloud storage, object storage and various other software defined storage (SDS) systems. An…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Encryption, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Replication, SDS, SMB
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How to Design Self-Service Storage – ioFABRIC Briefing Note
For application owners, storage is an overly complicated ordeal that they must go through in order to get applications up and performing well. Ideally, application owners should be masked from the complexity of the infrastructure. They shouldn’t care which storage…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, DRAM, Encryption, ioFABRIC, IOPS, Latency, NAS, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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Webinar: Where is the All-Flash Data Center?
Find it With Multi-tiered Flash! The all-flash data center was to solve all our problems. We’ve had all-flash arrays for ½ a decade. Where are the all-flash data centers? The problem is that performance and cost have been opposing forces…
Scale out NAS Needs a New Kind of Performance
Scale out NAS has proven the old adage that in IT we never solve any problems; we just move them around. Scale out systems were built for a lot of reasons, and one of the chief reasons was performance; a…
What is Object Storage Good For?
Backup appliances do one thing well, store backup data. Object storage systems, as we’ve shown, can also fulfill this role. But unlike typical backup appliance they can do so much more. As a backup target, object storage systems provide an…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, FS&S, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Redundancy, Replication, SMB
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Protecting From Ransomware without a Data Protection Overhaul
Ransomware is at the top of every IT professional’s project list, but the problem is most solutions to the problem require the replacement of the current data protection product. What if the current data protection solution is servicing the organization…
iXsystems’ New TrueNAS X10 and FreeNAS v11.0 Briefing Note
The software defined data center does not mean data centers are free from vendor lock-in. It just means vendors moved the lock from hardware to software. While the software may (not always) provide the organization the ability to mix and…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Hyperconverged, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, SDS, SMB, Snapshot, VM
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The First Storage Refresh Step
The first step in the storage refresh process has nothing to do with vendors or storage systems. The first step should be to decide on the technology best suited to the workloads the storage system will host. Organizations need to…
Big Data for Small Enterprises
Big Data is not just for big enterprises. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) can reap the same rewards. But SMEs can’t build a Big Data infrastructure like larger enterprises. The good news it they don’t have to, they can leverage…
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