Dealing With the Unstructured Data Deluge in Higher Education Colleges and Universities have many of the same issues with efficiently protecting critical data archives as private corporations but arguably, their challenges are even greater. While IT budgets have typically remained…
In a recent column we talked about what exactly object storage is, a storage software architecture that puts data into discrete ‘containers’ (called objects) and accesses them through an ID number and a simple index. We also discussed what object…
Object storage has been around for a number of years but is now getting more attention. This is due to a couple of factors: the amount of data, especially file data, is continuing to grow and the length of time…
The fastest growing data set in just about every organization today, and typically the largest, is unstructured data. This is data that’s outside of a database; essentially file data, stored on file servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The…
Data Centers of all sizes are facing a data epidemic, especially State and Local Governments. In fact data growth in government is potentially greater than in the private sector. Not only is there more data, there are more data types and requirements for longer retention. In this article George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland discusses how combating the data epidemic requires new innovation from an old source – tape. Rather than competing against disk, tape, combined with the right solution, can compliment and extend the useful life of disk storage assets.
Strictly speaking, object storage refers to a system where data is stored in discrete buckets or “objects”, in contrast to the directories and subdirectories of a traditional file system. It can be implemented in any storage architecture, but is usually…
Maybe someday every application will run in a cloud-ready, NOSQL environment from the start. But for now there are millions of legacy applications that businesses would like to move to the cloud. The problem is that the basic storage services…
One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…
One of the challenges facing global companies is gaining access to the same data at the same time so that projects can be collaborated on in real-time. These organizations need local high performance access to data but need to make…
When an organization decides to move some or all of its applications out of its data center and into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the key decisions is how they will store and access data. While Amazon’s Elastic…
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