For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
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Creating an Object Storage System that Bridges the gap to Tape
All data is not equal. It needs to be stored on different types of medium depending on the use case. Even within the archive dataset, all data is not created equal. Just like there are tiers of storage for primary…
Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Hard disk, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Next Generation File Server
For years, IT professionals have struggled with managing file data. This dataset has become increasingly problematic, often filling up file servers and breaking data protection processes. In recent years, organizations have asked for the distribution of file data to remote…
Tagged with: Cloud, File server, file sync and share, NAS, Nasuni, Next Generation
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Selecting the Right OpenStack Storage Module
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
Tagged with: Backup, Block Based Storage, CIFS, Cloud, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale-Out, SwiftStack, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Cost Effective Storage for Legacy Apps heading to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Avere CloudFusion The cloud appeals to organizations of all sizes, but as they begin their migration they are faced with the challenge of trying to integrate into the cloud provider’s storage infrastructure. Amazon, for example, has Elastic Block…
MeetTheCEO Podcast – Qumulo’s Peter Godman
In this week’s MeetTheCEO Qumulo‘s Peter Godman joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company’s product, Qumulo Core, the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for the…
Portfolio Analysis: DDN Delivers a Powerful Portfolio for the Data Intensive Enterprise
General Motors and General Electric, both in business for over a century, now employ more IT professionals than most IT vendors. Both companies have described themselves as software firms. At the heart of any IT company is data and most…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, Flash, Hard disk, HPC, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, NAS, Software Defined, SSD, WOS
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Elephant in the Data Center
Briefing Note: Introducing infinite io There is little argument among IT professionals that at least 80% of data is never accessed again after creation. In fact, Storage Switzerland finds that three months after a one week creation-edit cycle as much…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, HSM, ILM, infinite io, Migration, NAS, NFS, ROI, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group
Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Disaster recovery, Disk, LTFS, MLB, NAS, NFS, Tape, Unstructured data
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