With the release of LTO-8 Tape media and hardware vendors are once again boasting about how affordable it is to store data on tape. With a compressed capacity of 30TB per tape, they are right in doing so. At Storage…
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IT Needs A Different Reason To Buy Tape
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, LTO, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Scale, Tape
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StorNext System Evolves to Meet Increasing Data Performance and Storage Needs with StorNext6 Release
Organizations are struggling to deal with the problems of storing, protecting and sharing ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data. There are two primary causes of this struggle. First, too much of their primary data storage is consumed by “cold data” that…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, QOS, Quantum, Replication, SAN, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Open Software Defined Storage Becomes Enterprise Ready – SUSE Enterprise Storage Update
Software Defined Storage vendors claim “no vendor lock-in” as one of their mantras. While these solutions do allow the intermixing of various vendor hardware, the organization adopting the SDS solution is hopelessly locked into the SDS vendor from a software…
Amazon RE:Invent is for Storage Professionals
Amazon RE:Invent is right around the corner, and Storage Switzerland will be there for the first time shooting our famous ChalkTalk Videos and attending various analyst meetings and vendor briefings. Amazon AWS’ various storage offerings deserve serious consideration for storage…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Archive, Avere, AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB, SwiftStack
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How Important is Search to Scale-Out NAS?
Finding a file you wrote on your laptop’s hard drive can be difficult. If a file you collaborated on is stored on your department’s file server, it can be even more difficult to find. You just need to remember the…
Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger
Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…
Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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Simplifying File Migration and Modernization
There are plenty of solutions that promise to help an organization migrate, or transform, data in the cloud era. The problem is most of these solutions are just too complicated and try to do too much. Most organizations simply want…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
How to Manage Data Without Putting it in Jail
Data growth requires a response. For some organizations, that response is upgrading to a more scalable higher performing NAS or an on-premises object storage. For others it is moving some data sets to public cloud storage. Historically, these migrations are…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, ROI
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Real Time SAN Analytics, No TAPs – Virtual Instruments & Cisco Briefing Note
Capturing real time analytics from the storage area network is important to optimizing the network. However, the rapid adoption of flash technology makes it even more critical. The problem is capturing information in real time typically involves using TAPs. A…
Tagged with: ASIC, CISCO, Cloud, Flash, Migration, Object Storage, SAN, TAP, Virtual Instruments
Posted in Briefing Note
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Is it time to Re-think Unstructured Data Protection and Retention? – Aparavi Briefing Note
Data is growing and most of that growth is unstructured data (machine data, files, images, etc …). That’s not surprising to any IT professional, but what is unnerving is the rate of that growth and the fact that the growth…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Cyber, Object Storage, Replication, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
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