Blog Archives

Creating a Tape Exit Strategy – BridgeSTOR Briefing Note

Posted on March 22, 2018 by George Crump

While one can argue the pros and cons of a tape exit decision, no one can argue the fact that organizations are making that decision every day. If an organization decides to eliminate tape from its data protection strategy it…

Tagged with: Backup, BridgeSTOR, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, ISCSI, LTO, NAS, NFS, SMB, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on March 9, 2018 by George Crump

The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Slideshare

Overcoming Backup Appliance Conventional Wisdom – ExaGrid Briefing Note

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

There are two key assumptions when it comes to purpose-built backup appliances. First, they must have inline deduplication and second, they will all be replaced by backup software solutions as they add deduplication functionality to their software and start selling…

Tagged with: Backup, CIFS, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy
Posted in Briefing Note

Primary Storage Should Secure Itself – RackTop Systems Briefing Note

Posted on March 5, 2018 by George Crump

News of another data breach is becoming all too common of an occurrence. The cost to the organization is not just its reputation but increasingly results in punitive fines. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set a new…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber, Encryption, GDPR, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, S3, SMB, Snapshot
Posted in Briefing Note

Creating a Storage Performance Validation Practice – Virtual Instruments Briefing Note

Posted on March 2, 2018 by George Crump

Storage architects have the responsibility to place workloads properly on the right storage tier. Workload placement requires a careful balance between the correct level of performance and the right price. The problem is these architects do not have the tools…

Tagged with: Cloud, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SAN, SDS, SMB, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on February 27, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog

Realizing the Full Potential of NVMe – E8 Storage Briefing Note

Posted on February 7, 2018 by George Crump

When flash storage first came to market it exposed the weakness in storage designs, hidden by the latency of hard disk media. Now, NVMe promises to expose weaknesses in the designs of the first generation of all-flash arrays. One of…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, E8, FC, Flash, HPC, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note

NAS vs. The Unstructured Data Vault

Posted on January 15, 2018 by George Crump

There are two primary use cases for NAS. The first demands high performance when using NAS as primary storage to host application data and virtual machines. Modern NAS systems address this use case. The second, and more common, use is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
Posted in Blog

A 3 Step Cloud Storage Strategy

Posted on January 9, 2018 by George Crump

The desired final step of a cloud strategy is to use the services available in the cloud to the fullest extent possible. The problem is for most organizations the first step, leveraging the cloud for backup or archive, which typically…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, SwiftStack, Sync
Posted in Blog

What’s Next in Enterprise Backup Appliances? INFINIDAT Backup Appliance Briefing Note

Posted on December 19, 2017 by George Crump

Backup Appliances come in two forms. Integrated appliances that have the backup software pre-installed on them and appliances that act as stand-alone systems so they can accept input from a variety of backup sources. The second type is probably more…