Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…
Dropbox is the poster child for Shadow IT, and for good reason. The solution is easy to use and, because it operates transparently, it’s just another folder. But Dropbox was originally designed to be a consumer tool, not a business…
Everybody agrees that intelligent archives are the way to efficiently manage data, moving lesser-accessed files off of expensive storage and providing a long-term retention capability. When combined with backup, an archive can improve both primary storage utilization and data protection,…
Scale-out storage has a fundamental weakness, according to startup Qumulo, it can grow easily but also increases data management requirements as it does capacity. This means that as storage systems grow they get less efficient and more expensive to run,…
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have the potential of reducing the cost to deploy and support an organization’s desktops and laptops. But VDI presents three big problems to the storage infrastructure; assuring the proper use of flash, the proper placement of…
Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…
As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…
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