One of the popular use cases for Windows Server 2008 is as a file server but on January 14th Microsoft stopped supporting the 2008 version of the operating system. Those using Server 2012 as a file server can assume that…
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Windows 2008 File Server? What to do now
Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Making the Hybrid Cloud Work for Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is already taking advantage of the cloud, but most of the workflows have been rendering, simulation or other ephemeral use cases. The advantages of using the cloud for more permanent project tasks though should…
Silos of Clusters – Is this the End Result of Data Center Modernization?
Applications like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow typically operate on scale-out architectures built from dozens, if not hundreds of servers, which act as nodes in the application’s cluster. Many organizations now use a mix of these applications to derive the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF
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Bringing an OpEx Model to the Data Protection Service Provider
A managed service provider (MSP) that offers a data protection service typically provides backup, recovery and high availability capabilities to their customers in the form of a subscription based service. In some cases those providers enjoy a similar pricing model…
Solving the Billion Files Problem
Most file system management tools – whether they are for reporting, governance, backup, archiving, migration, cloud bursting, or content classification – start developing performance problems when the total number of files and directories exceeds a hundred million. The performance challenges…
Tagged with: Flash, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, NVMe, Starfish Storage
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Lightboard Video: What Are the Requirements for Next-Generation File Systems?
Organizations need to process unprecedented amounts of unstructured data but are questioning the ability of legacy file systems to meet this need. In this Lightboard Video, Eric Scollard, Qumulo’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales, and George Crump, Lead Analyst at…
Lightboard Video: Qumulo’s Performance Architecture
One of the biggest challenges facing file systems that store petabyte-scale unstructured datasets is continuing to provide high-performance storage services. In this Lightboard Video, Tommy Unger, Data Scientist and Product Manager with Qumulo, joined Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, George Crump,…
Answering the “Where’s That File Question?”
One of the biggest challenges users face, and the cause for significant productivity losses, is finding those files later. Where did they store it? What was the file name? The problem is bad enough if they store all their data…
Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, DAS, File Sharing, FileShadow, NAS, VDI, Virtualization
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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!
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
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…
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