In 2010, there were almost a dozen major NAS vendors on the market. Today, the market has shrunk, ironically at a time when organizations need unstructured data storage solutions more than ever. The primary reasons for the shrinking of the…
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Making the Hybrid Cloud Work for Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is already taking advantage of the cloud, but most of the workflows have been rendering, simulation or other ephemeral use cases. The advantages of using the cloud for more permanent project tasks though should…
Bringing an OpEx Model to the Data Protection Service Provider
A managed service provider (MSP) that offers a data protection service typically provides backup, recovery and high availability capabilities to their customers in the form of a subscription based service. In some cases those providers enjoy a similar pricing model…
Meet The CEO: HYCU, Inc’s Simon Taylor
Backup and Recovery is as old as the data center itself, but organizations still struggle with the process. IT professionals have tried many solutions to solve their data protection solutions, and the market is full of options, but none seem…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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Preparing Object Storage for the Cloud Data Management Avalanche
Hybrid Cloud, thanks to its flexibility when deploying compute and storage, is the deployment architecture that most organizations are choosing for their cloud strategy. The challenge is that hybrid cloud, by its very nature, means that data is distributed across…
Tagged with: Assessment, Cloud, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NFS, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, STaaS, Unstructured data
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How to Modernize Data Protection and Live to Tell About it
There are several vendors on the market today that want customers to modernize their current data protection strategy by selecting their solution. The problem with most of the modern data protection solutions is they don’t support the current solution in…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft
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Overcoming the Real Roadblock to the All-Flash Data Center
All-Flash storage is taking over many, but not all, production storage responsibilities, but because of cost, most organizations can’t justify placing all production workloads on all-flash storage. These organizations then certainly can’t justify placing secondary storage and data protection workloads…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HDD, NFS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QLC, S3, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Tape, VAST Data
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SwiftStack for AI, ML and DL
How to Build a Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline for AI, ML and DL Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are experiencing rapid adoption in a number of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, pharmaceutical drug research, predictive maintenance,…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Deep Learning, DL, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, SwiftStack
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Making HPC Available to the Masses – Dell Technologies HPC Briefing Note
With businesses beginning to rely on analytics, machine and deep learning (ML and DL), and artificial intelligence (AI) to run daily processes and generate competitive advantage, high-performance computing (HPC) is becoming more applicable outside of its traditional niche use cases,…
How Do I Prepare for PCIe Gen 4?
2019 will be the year that new CPUs and motherboards supporting the fourth generation of the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface (PCIe 4.0) will come to market – meaning that new storage systems using the interface are also on…
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