Unstructured data presents two scaling challenges to the data center. The first is capacity. It comes as no surprise to any IT professional that unstructured data is growing at an alarming rate. The second is performance, which may take some…
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Scaling Unstructured Data in the Cloud Era
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Unstructured data
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NAS 2.0 Must Preserve Data
About 85% of the data most organizations store has not been accessed in 90 days and most of it hasn’t been accessed in years. The reality is data managers really don’t know what’s in that data or if it is…
Leveraging the Cloud For Data Distribution
For organizations with multiple offices where employees need access to the same data at the same time, leveraging the cloud for unstructured data storage make sense. Not only does it help with data distribution, it also helps ease data management…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Understanding The AWS Storage Portfolio – Amazon Briefing Note
Amazon Web Services (AWS) support a large number of use cases, ranging from high transactional applications to analytic processing applications, as well as backup and archiving solutions. As vendors and data centers decide on how they will use Amazon they…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, AWS, Backup, Cloud, Container, Data Lake, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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ChalkTalk Video: Using the 3-2-1 Rule To Protect Against Ransomware
Protection in the modern data center is changing. IT must provide backup to disk and an instant recover capability to meet the recovery expectations of application owners. But this rapid protection also puts data at risk to a ransomware attack.…
Tagged with: Backup, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, LTFS, LTO, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017, WAN
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How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications
Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…
Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?
An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Why Doesn’t Amazon Protect Your Data?
Amazon and its competitors could do more to protect the data stored in their object storage and block storage, and I can’t think of a reason why they shouldn’t. I have an idea on how they could make a lot…
Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note
Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, FMS2017, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Snapshot, Software Defined
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