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Gen 6 Fibre Channel will work with what you have – Podcast

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

It won’t be long until Gen 6 Fibre Channel will be available for your data center. George Crump and I talk to the FCIA’s Scott Shimomura about Gen 6 and how it can scale with what you already have. …

Tagged with: FCIAnews, Fibre Channel, Gen 6, Network-attached storage, networking
Posted in Podcast

Video – How to Stop Performance Sprawl

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In our recent webinar, How to Stop Hardware Sprawl, we found that users are having a lot of problems handling performance. And performance is generating much of the hardware sprawl problem. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump addresses Performance Sprawl…

Object Storage 101

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Eric Slack

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…

Tagged with: File system, Hardware, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Scalability, Unstructured data
Posted in Article

WD’s New SMB Backup Appliances Leverage Arkeia Software

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Eric Slack

At the beginning of this year, WD acquired Arkeia, a company with a long history in the primary backup software market. Arkeia was known in the industry as a technology leader in deduplication, with technology they acquired from Kadena Systems…

Tagged with: Arkeia, Network-attached storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Standard RAID levels, USB 3.0, VMware, Western Digital
Posted in Briefing Note

Multi-Tenant Primary Cloud Storage For Legacy Applications

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, NAS, NetApp, Network-attached storage, SAN, Zadara
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Global Data Access With A Global NAS – Panzura Amazon re:Invent Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: AEC, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Cloud storage, NAS, Network-attached storage, Panzura
Posted in Briefing Note

Scale-Out NAS or Object Storage?

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Cloudian, CloudStack, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, OpenStack, Scalability
Posted in Article, White Paper

Stopping Storage System Sprawl

Posted on October 24, 2013 by George Crump

Unstructured data can come from a variety of sources including traditional office productivity files, rich media or data generated by sensors and cameras. It can also come from semi-structured environments like Exchange and SharePoint. Even though each of these examples…

Next Generation Scale-Out NAS

Posted on June 13, 2013 by George Crump

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
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What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by George Crump

In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…

Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
Posted in Blog