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Protecting Against Open S3 Buckets

Posted on August 3, 2017 by George Crump

Almost every week there is another incident of an Amazon S3 storage bucket being left open for anyone to access. These openings allowed data ranging from personal details of wireless customers to 200 million voter records to be exposed for…

Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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StorageShort: Designing a Multiple Location NAS

Posted on August 1, 2017 by George Crump

In an effort to find talent many organizations have multiple locations so employees don’t have to move across the country or suffer through multiple hour commutes. Technology is the key enabler to having a number of locations but there is…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?

Posted on July 31, 2017 by wcurtispreston

The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: 10-Minutes to Cloud: How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing

Posted on July 28, 2017 by George Crump

Enterprises aren’t the only organizations that can benefit from big data. Medium and large businesses can too. The challenge is, can these businesses build the same big data infrastructure enterprises do? The short answer is, they can’t. But the secret…

Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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The Problems with Storage Performance Benchmarks

Posted on July 27, 2017 by George Crump

There are a number of storage performance benchmarks that provide a standardized way to compare storage systems from various vendors. The problem is there are few, if any, data centers that have a workload that is exactly like those benchmarks.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Taking Advantage of Object Stores Like EMC ECS – Right Now

Posted on July 26, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is the storage methodology for the future of unstructured data and more. Next generation applications are able to write directly to object storage and take advantage of its sophisticated resource management capabilities. But enterprises have unstructured data problems…

Tagged with: Cloud, ECS, IoT, Malware, NAS, NFS, NTP, NTP Software, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, Unique ID, Unstructured data
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Finding Object Storage’s Missing Link

Posted on July 25, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is an excellent secondary tier of storage. It can drive down the cost of storage, improve the quality of data retention and ensure that data is safe in the event of a disaster. Unlike other forms of storage,…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, Copy Data, Data Protection, file sync and share, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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SlideShare: 5 Steps To The Perfect Storage Refresh

Posted on July 24, 2017 by George Crump

An Independent Process for Assessing & Refreshing Storage Every data center eventually needs to increase capacity, resiliency, performance or the cost efficiency of its storage architecture. It needs to refresh storage infrastructure. The problem is that most organizations don’t have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Why is Unstructured Data So Important?

Posted on July 24, 2017 by wcurtispreston

A lot of the advancements happening in storage seem to be for unstructured data. Why is that? Have all of the problems for databases been solved? It’s not like databases are no longer important. But what does seem to be…