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SlideShare: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support

Posted on September 30, 2016 by George Crump

NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Subscriber Exclusive – ChalkTalk Video: The Problems with NFS on Object Storage

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this and provide NFS support. The problem is most of these vendors leverage a NFS gateway to act as the bridge.…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, Flash, NFS, Object Storage, performance
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The Problems Using NFS for Mission Critical Workloads

Posted on September 23, 2016 by George Crump

NFS started life as a protocol for unstructured data, then in the early 2000’s NetApp and Veritas started to position NFS as an ideal way to host Oracle databases. NFS was easier and performed admirably when compared to the more…

Tagged with: Fibre Channel, Latency, Metadata, NFS, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Webinar: The Five Problems Facing Business-Critical NFS Deployments

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

VMware, NetApp and even EMC are proponents of using NFS based storage systems to support mission critical workloads like virtual machines, databases and performance sensitive unstructured data. But in comparison to mission critical fibre channel, the tools to monitor and…

Tagged with: Bottleneck, Latency, Metadata, NFS, Virtual Instruments, VM
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StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this reality and most, if not all, are including capabilities so that allows for the transfer of storage to the object…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Is NetApp Still Right for Unstructured Data?

Posted on September 8, 2016 by George Crump

The NetApp FAS series of storage systems have the potential to be at the center of most enterprise’s storage infrastructure. But there are certain data sets that stretch a FAS too far. For these situations, enterprises need to look for…

Tagged with: Caringo, Machine-generated, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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All-Flash for Mid-tier Data Center

Posted on August 29, 2016 by George Crump

Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Exablox, Flash, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Snapshots, SSD
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Open Software Defined Storage takes an Object Storage Step

Posted on August 18, 2016 by George Crump

Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Briefing Note Software Defined Storage (SDS) continues to attract the attention of IT professionals, but broad adoption is not meeting the expectations IT professionals. Part of the challenge is that while SDS, in theory, breaks…