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Selecting the Right OpenStack Storage Module

Posted on October 14, 2015 by George Crump

OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…

Tagged with: Backup, Block Based Storage, CIFS, Cloud, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale-Out, SwiftStack, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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The Elephant in the Data Center

Posted on September 14, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: Introducing infinite io There is little argument among IT professionals that at least 80% of data is never accessed again after creation. In fact, Storage Switzerland finds that three months after a one week creation-edit cycle as much…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, HSM, ILM, infinite io, Migration, NAS, NFS, ROI, Virtualization
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StorageSwiss sits down with MLB Network’s Asset Management group

Posted on August 7, 2015 by George Crump

Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…

Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Disaster recovery, Disk, LTFS, MLB, NAS, NFS, Tape, Unstructured data
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Hadoop Storage: DAS vs. Shared

Posted on July 23, 2015 by George Crump

As Hadoop scales and the data center begins to count on it, the extra expense required to maintain DAS performance, reliability and scalability often end up being more expensive than the shared storage alternative. In this article we discuss how the multi-faceted capabilities of a scale-out, distributed storage software end up being less expensive than DAS.

Tagged with: CIFS, DAS, Hedvig, Metadata, NFS, Shared Storage, Software Defined
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Flash + Object – The Emergence of a Two Tier Enterprise

Posted on June 15, 2015 by George Crump

For as long as there has been data there has been a quest to consolidate that data onto a single, consolidated storage system, but that quest seems to never be satisfied. The problem is that there are essentially two types…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloudian, Flash, Flash Array, Internet of Things, IOPS, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Snapshot, VM
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Briefing Note: Performance Testing gets closer to the Real World

Posted on May 20, 2015 by George Crump

When IT professionals look to solve a storage performance or capacity problem the number of options available to them can almost be overwhelming. Trying to select the right solution to their particular problem seems almost impossible. They simply don’t have…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, I/O, I/O Blender, Load DynamiX, NFS, VDI, Virtual machine, VM
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Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center

Posted on April 20, 2015 by George Crump

Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Cloud, Hybrid, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: StorageX Promises to end NAS Migration pain

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Eric Slack

The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…

StrongBox Archive NAS solves problem of Long-term Unstructured Data Storage

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

Unstructured data is burying companies’ storage infrastructures. According to Gartner, files comprise 80 percent of all data, and its growth rate in enterprises will exceed 800% in five years. Compounding this problem is the need to store these data for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, dr, LTFS, LTO, NAS, NFS, RAID, Unstructured data
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WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…