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Webinar: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks

Posted on April 26, 2018 by George Crump

Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2018 by George Crump

A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…

Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
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Enterprises, You Want Object Storage But Not For Objects

Posted on April 13, 2018 by George Crump

The industry has been espousing the merits of object storage for years now and cloud providers have been quick to adopt the technology. The enterprise, on the other hand, is more cautious, partly because the object storage alternative, Network Attached…

Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, file sync and share, Flash, Hadoop, HDD, IoT, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Solving NAS Migration Pain – Komprise 2.7 Briefing Note

Posted on March 30, 2018 by George Crump

Every few years an organization needs to purchase a new network attached storage (NAS) system. The old system either has reached its capacity limits or no longer meets the performance expectations of new users and applications. The options for a…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cold Data, dr, Komprise, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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Creating a Cloud Extension Instead of a Cloud Migration Strategy – Nexenta Briefing Note

Posted on March 26, 2018 by George Crump

As data centers consider the role cloud compute and storage will have in their organization’s IT strategy, they look for solutions to extend what they already have, not solutions that require them to start over in the cloud. One of…

Tagged with: Block, Cloud, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, Nexenta, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, SMB, Unstructured data
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Protecting The Data-Driven Organization – Imanis Data Briefing Note

Posted on March 23, 2018 by George Crump

Most organizations make decisions based on data. In recent years, the amount of data that these organizations can access to help make those decisions has exploded. More data, though, won’t help unless the organization can analyze that data. It became…

Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, DAS, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Migration, NAS, NoSQL, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, SAN
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How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note

Posted on March 20, 2018 by George Crump

Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, LTO, Object Storage, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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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
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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…