A lot of people worry that a deep archive in the cloud will be about as useful as the boxes in the deepest part of your attic. The data will be stored in an economical way and the cloud vendor…
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Webinar: Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
Object Storage promises many things – unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the…
Object Storage FAQ
One of the things I like about Spiceworks is the website’s user forums. They give a good sense of what is going on in the trenches of IT. Recently a user asked a series of questions about Object Storage. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Global IT Executive Summit – Blending Tape into Your Archive Strategy
It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense…
Tagged with: Archive, Flash, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, HPE, LTFS, LTO, NAS, Object Storage, ROI, Tape, Unstructured data
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Maintaining Data Monetization Value over Time
It’s a fact that data stored on magnetic media degrades over time. It cannot be stopped; it can only be managed. It’s a problem that you must address if you plan to create a data monetization system that stores data…
Tagged with: Bit Rot, Caringo, Data Monetization, Magnetic, NAS, Object Storage, Retention
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Storage All-Star Team — All-Flash Filer with Object Storage
For over a decade, network attached storage systems (NAS) have tried to expand beyond the typical use case of a store for user home directories. Companies like NetApp maintain NFS is perfectly appropriate for supporting virtual infrastructures and Oracle databases.…
The Storage Architecture Behind The Thin Provisioned NetApp
Thin provisioning a NetApp can create as many problems as it solves. As mentioned in previous blogs, thin provisioning in this context refers to the act of clearing out older, unused files and putting them somewhere else. Essentially “thinning” the…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Latency, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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Getting Data Off a Filer and Living to Tell About It
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are primary storage systems, which are ideal for providing very fast access to “hot” (active) data sets that change frequently. Organizations have continuously added capacity to these systems to keep pace with the ever-rising tide…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Cold Data, HSM, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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StorageShort: NAS to Object Storage Requires Automation
Object Storage can make a perfect back end storage repository for NAS systems that are at capacity, and many object storage vendors provide some sort of gateway like functionality so that their object store looks like an NFS store. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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