Private or hybrid cloud file sharing provides many business benefits over traditional on-premise network attached storage. It enables organizations to consolidate infrastructure and remove duplicate silos of storage from multiple sites and office locations. Cloud file sharing reduces storage costs,…
Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…
Overwhelmed by unstructured data, like images, video and files not in a database, enterprises are struggling to keep up with storage capacity needs, especially since budgets are flat. As we discussed in a recent article, “The 3 Problems With Adding…
Is there a road to zero storage costs in the future? From witnessing the ongoing storage pricing wars taking place amongst the industry cloud service providers (CSPs), this doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. In fact, some industry…
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has certainly caught the attention of IT planners looking to reduce the cost of storage by liberating them from traditional storage hardware lock-in. As SDS evolves the promise of lower storage CAPEX, increased deployment and architecture…
How can organizations improve the performance of their existing NAS assets 50x without doing a massive forklift upgrade? The answer could be integrating a Cloud NAS system. As the name implies, a Cloud NAS leverages ubiquitous, low-cost cloud storage, to…
For many small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), the cloud may be intimidating. It sounds appealing but they think it’s too expensive or too complex for their business. WD is trying to dispel those notions with a line of products…
Recently we had a very well-attended webinar with the CEO of Avere Systems, Ron Bianchini, “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy”. The following excerpt from the Q & A portion of the webinar discusses how businesses can…
NetApp is great, but it can get pricey. David Cerf of Crossroads and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump talk with me about how you can set your budget free by breaking out of the NetApp capacity jail. Click here to…
It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data repositories that are well in excess of this heady…
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