Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
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Migration – The Storage Refresh Killer
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, Storage Refresh, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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What are Cloud File Services?
Most IT professionals think of cloud storage as storage at the end of an internet connection that, because of the inherent latency, is for data that doesn’t need instant access. As a result, IT uses it mostly for backup, archive…
DevOps for IT Pros: The Key to Addressing Bi-Modal IT
DevOps can deliver a strong return on investment (ROI) for those environments choosing to invest in it. Environments adopting a DevOps mentality move from merely supporting operations to truly enabling better, more efficient operations. IT moves from merely changing the…
Making Object Storage Simpler at Petabyte Scale with Intelligent Management
Organizations struggling to store and manage an ever rising flood of unstructured data turned to the cloud and object storage in order to contain or reduce costs. But, over time many of them discovered that increasing, recurring costs to store…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, CSP, NFS, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SDS, SMB
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Posted in Product Analysis
NAS vs. Object: Supporting Next Apps
Today’s apps aren’t your father’s apps. Applications developed today take for granted things that were not even thinkable not that long ago — especially in the storage space. The scale that is needed by modern day applications was never envisioned…
What Exactly is Software Defined Storage?
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) separates the storage software from the storage hardware. The result should be a model that allows organizations to buy storage hardware systems from multiple vendors that address specific use cases but have the ability to operate, not…
Making Storage Aware of VMware
Briefing Note: Tintri VMstore Since the advent of VMware and other virtualization products, storage has been an issue. First, the challenge is having to use traditional shared storage devices with hypervisors. Traditional LUNs are too difficult to create, grow, and…
Managing Active Unstructured Data
InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, Capacity, DRAM, Flash, InterModal Data, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, performance, QOS, Unstructured data
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Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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