NFS compatibility is considered table stakes for object storage products in today’s market. How and why did this happen? Network Attached Storage (NAS) and the NFS protocol have been and is the architecture of choice for unstructured data. Despite all…
Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh…
Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher…
If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise…
Spectra Logic’s Nathan Thompson is our guest on this MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. The team discusses Nathan’s new book “Society’s Genome: Genetic Diversity’s Role in Digital Preservation” and how enterprises can overcome the challenge…
Maybe you don’t need to replace your NetApp filer. Maybe what you need to do is just make better use of it. Repurpose it and revitalize it instead of replacing it. Unstructured data – while incredibly valuable – usually has…
As modern organizations struggle to keep up with the ever-growing data deluge, they have been forced to deploy and overprovision different types of storage in order to meet their Service Level Agreements (SLA), leading to unprecedented storage sprawl. Storage consolidation…
Storage consolidation is a lost cause. Why? The reason is that both the storage hardware and the use cases for that hardware are too different from each other. I outlined the problems in detail in my blog The Need for…
Here is the goal: Having a data center that consolidates all data onto a single storage system from one vendor. The hope is that by consolidating to a single system, the organization will reduce management headaches that IT administrators face…
SoftNAS’ Rick Braddy is our guest on the latest MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Rick is the CEO and CTO and discusses his plans for the leading provider of software-defined NAS solutions into the future.…
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