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Leveraging the Cloud For Data Distribution

Posted on September 7, 2017 by George Crump

For organizations with multiple offices where employees need access to the same data at the same time, leveraging the cloud for unstructured data storage make sense. Not only does it help with data distribution, it also helps ease data management…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: Can Disk Backups Have An “Air Gap?”

Posted on September 7, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Ransomware is changing everyone’s thoughts about how backups should work. Put another way, many of the old ideas about backups are now back in vogue. One of those ideas is the 3-2-1 rule. It says enterprises should have three copies…

Tagged with: Air Gap, API, Corruption, Malware, NFS, Quantum, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017
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Will NVMe Over Fabrics Kill DAS?

Posted on September 1, 2017 by George Crump

Many advanced application architectures use Direct Attached Storage (DAS) instead of centralized shared storage for two reasons. First, in most cases sever drives are less expensive than drives found in shared storage systems. Second, storage that is internally accessed has…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, DAS, Deduplication, Latency, NFS, NVMe, NVMe-F, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Tegile
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How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications

Posted on August 28, 2017 by George Crump

Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, RAM, SAN, SMB, Snapshot, SoftNas, SSD
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Distributed Storage Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 28, 2017 by George Crump

Distributed storage offers more capability than traditional scale-out solutions. They scale further, are more granular and have a better multi-site/multi-cloud model. But distributed systems are typically viewed as the storage system for the next generation data center, and while they…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Encryption, Flash, Hedvig, Hypervisor, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SDS, VM
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Modern Storage Infrastructures Need Software Defined Networks – Big Switch Briefing Note

Posted on August 15, 2017 by George Crump

Data center modernization creates agility so IT can rapidly respond to the needs of the business. Of the aspects of the data center being modernized, the network infrastructure tends to be the last to change and it inhibits the proliferation…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, Fabric, HCI, Hyperconvergence, ISCSI, NFS, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM, VSAN
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Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on August 10, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, FMS2017, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Snapshot, Software Defined
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End-to-End Data Management – Primary Data Briefing Note

Posted on August 2, 2017 by George Crump

The objective of data management is to make sure the right data is on the right type of storage at the right time. The problem is most vendors are too myopic in their treatment of the process. Vendors either focus…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Copy Data, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Primary Data, SMB, Snapshot
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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?

Posted on July 31, 2017 by wcurtispreston

The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Taking Advantage of Object Stores Like EMC ECS – Right Now

Posted on July 26, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is the storage methodology for the future of unstructured data and more. Next generation applications are able to write directly to object storage and take advantage of its sophisticated resource management capabilities. But enterprises have unstructured data problems…