Unstructured data is becoming a big headache for many organizations. By some estimates, this type of data (user files, emails, PDFs, images, videos, etc.) now accounts for up to 90% of all new data growth. While most of this information quickly…
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Scale-Out NAS or Object Storage?
Tagged with: Amazon S3, Cloudian, CloudStack, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, OpenStack, Scalability
Posted in Article, White Paper
Posted in Article, White Paper
Scale out NAS Backup for Scale out Storage
Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, NAS, OptiScale, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton, VirtuoSO
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud
Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…
Tagged with: Agentless, Archive, Asigra, Backup, Cloud, NAS, Recovery, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Bringing Cloud Storage to the Tier 2 Data Center
Unstructured data is file based data that is most commonly associated with user productivity applications like word processing, spreadsheets and presentation files. But unstructured data also includes rich media from training videos, photos, CAD-CAM drawings etc., plus the data created…
Next Generation Scale-Out NAS
The use cases for Network Attached Storage (NAS) have changed dramatically in the 20 years since the first NAS appeared. NAS hardware architectures have also changed. So have the capacities and performance levels that NAS systems are asked to support.…
Tagged with: Compellent Storage Center, Dell, NAS, Network-attached storage, OPS, Scale-Out, Solid-state drive
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Rethinking the Storage Controller for Unstructured Data
Conventional wisdom suggests that most business data is stored in database applications, however, unstructured data comprises approximately 70-80% of the total data in a typical environment and, according to some industry sources, is growing 5x as fast. File-based data is…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Exablox, NAS, SharePoint, Unstructured data
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
What is the Fate of Object Storage?
Object storage and the systems that leverage its unique data storage approach have been the subject of much hype over the past few years. If you took past analyst predictions at face value, by now all unstructured data would be…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Active Archive Alliance, ISCSI, NAS, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
What Is Object Storage?
This past week Storage Switzerland and other industry influencers joined Cleversafe, Data Direct Networks, Intel, Nexsan, Quantum, and Scality at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit in Florida. The first order of business was to try to explain what Object…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, File system, Intel, NAS, Network-attached storage, Nexsan, Object Storage, Scality
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
The Unified Cloud Storage Array
Cloud Storage Gateways can provide a variety of services that allow data centers to connect to the cloud. There are multiple backup gateways, a few file services (NAS) gateways and fewer still primary storage (iSCSI) gateways. Incredibly rare are gateways…
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