The sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent is almost upon us (November 27 to December 1 in Las Vegas). In this webinar listen to Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: The…
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Webinar: Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals – Three Capabilities to Look For
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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What is the Two Tier Data Center?
Most data centers have at least five to six different storage systems from different vendors, increasing storage costs and management complexity. One potential solution is the all-flash data center, where all data is moved to a single all-flash array. While…
Webinar: How to Create A Two Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage
The only problem with the all-flash data center is most of the data (as much as 85%) organizations store is not accessed in more than a year. Assuming there is a more cost effective way to store that data it…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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High Performance NAS in an Object World – Rozo Briefing Note
Object Storage dominates the unstructured data discussion. But many organizations need high performance NFS, SMB and even Apple’s AFP to meet the demand of various use cases in markets like M&E, Science, HPC and Oil and Gas. The more traditional…
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Rozo, Scale-Out, SMB
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Podcast: Saving Through Archive?
Archiving is a lot more than buying an object storage system and putting old files on it. There are a lot of things to consider before creating an archiving strategy. How do you archive? What are the best practices? Do…
How to Use Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage for Object Storage Backup
An on-premises object storage solution is a versatile data platform for enterprises that can be used to archive old data to and used as a backup target and even replace some NAS use cases. But one of the challenges with…
How to Develop a Holistic Cloud Data Management Strategy – Actifio Briefing Note
Many organizations have identified the public cloud as an important tool in their data protection and data management strategies. Vendors are quick to jump on this interest. The problem is most of the solutions vendors provide are fairly myopic and…
Tagged with: Actifio, Archive, Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Object Storage, Redundancy, VM
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How to Archive Video and Audio But Still Find it – Archive360 Briefing Note
This week at Microsoft Ignite, the Azure team announced it added some interesting features to its object storage platform that dramatically increase the value of storing data in the Azure cloud. These features are just now beginning to appear in…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Audio, Backup, Cloud, Metadata, Microsoft Ignite, Object Storage, Video
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How to Design a Self-Protecting NAS
All primary storage systems protect themselves in some way. Most provide protection from media failure by leveraging some form of RAID. They also provide snapshot technology to protect against data corruption or user entry error. Many also provide the ability…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Disk array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Snapshot, Tape
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Fix Files or Move To Objects – Qumulo Briefing Note
Object storage has been getting a lot of attention lately. This new way of storing data does not require the old metaphors of volumes and folders. Data is stored in a flat architecture and then each object (file) is assigned…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Fabric, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Replication, Software Defined, Unique ID
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