The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…
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Briefing Note: StorageX Promises to end NAS Migration pain
Tagged with: CIFS, Data Dynamics, Data migration, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Metadata, NAS, Network-attached storage, NFS, StorageX, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data
Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…
Tagged with: Big data, Business Analytics, Data Protection, High Capacity, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Panasas, Reliability, SATA, Scale-Out, SSD, Unstructured data
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In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network
Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Sphere 3D and Overland Storage complete merger, introduce new VDI Appliance
On December 2nd 2014, Sphere 3D, manufacturer of the Glassware 2.0 application virtualization platform, completed the merger announced in May with longtime storage vendor Overland Storage, makers of the SnapServer NAS products, NEO tape libraries and RDX portable disk drives.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-converged, NAS, Overland Storage, Sphere 3D, Tape, VDI, Virtualization
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StrongBox Archive NAS solves problem of Long-term Unstructured Data Storage
Unstructured data is burying companies’ storage infrastructures. According to Gartner, files comprise 80 percent of all data, and its growth rate in enterprises will exceed 800% in five years. Compounding this problem is the need to store these data for…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, dr, LTFS, LTO, NAS, NFS, RAID, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Stopping the Unstructured Data Insanity
The fact that unstructured data is growing at an uncontrollable rate should come as no surprise to IT professionals. The challenge is figuring out what to do about this growth. How can you store it all in a cost effective…
Is Storage Management Overload making IT less relevant?
IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…
Tagged with: Archive, Disaster recovery, Exablox, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Overload, Provisioning, Scale, Scale-Out
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A Hybrid NAS for Unstructured Data
There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.
Tagged with: CIFS, Crossroads, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid NAS, NAS, NFS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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Secure Private Cloud File Sharing
File sharing and collaboration is critical for businesses that have highly distributed workforces but maintaining control and security over sensitive business data is equally important. File sharing solution provider, Talon, is helping to deliver cloud enabled file sharing to businesses…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Collaboration, Data Mobility, File Sharing, File Sync, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Talon Storage, VPN, WAN
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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”
Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…
Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
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