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Do NAS Systems Need More Than NFS & SMB?

Posted on July 20, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Many years ago when the NAS market was born, it was very simple to distinguish between NAS systems and SAN systems. SAN systems ran on Fibre Channel and NAS systems ran on Ethernet. SAN systems used block protocols like SCSI…

Tagged with: NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Quantum, SAN, Scale-Out, SCSI, SMB, Tape
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Why Windows File Server Archive ROIs are Broken

Posted on July 19, 2017 by George Crump

Windows file server archiving is the process of getting all the old data off of an organization’s Windows file servers and moving them to some less expensive form of storage. The concept has been around almost since there were Windows…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Optimization, Ransomware, ROI, Windows
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The Security Advantage of Cloud Bursting

Posted on July 18, 2017 by George Crump

The result of a poll in our latest webinar, “How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing to the Cloud“, indicates security remains a concern of organizations looking at leveraging the cloud. In the poll, 46% of respondents chose security as…

Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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StorageShort: Overcoming Cloud’s Data Gravity Problem

Posted on July 14, 2017 by George Crump

Access to almost limitless, on-demand compute and storage means public cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Azure should be a factor in the strategy of almost any sized enterprise. Most experts recommend a hybrid approach, but the problem is data…

Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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StorageShort: Breaking Data Migration Myths

Posted on July 10, 2017 by George Crump

Typically IT has to perform a data migration from an old storage system to a new one every few years. The old system has either come off of maintenance, is out of capacity, or can’t deliver the performance the organization…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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The Storage Refresh Needs to Become a Process

Posted on July 6, 2017 by George Crump

Times have changed. Data centers must refresh storage more frequently than ever. The organization wants faster application response to more sophisticated queries across more users. Or it wants to start a totally new endeavor, like better decision making driven by…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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What’s Wrong with a Cloud First Strategy – Velostrata Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

The problem with a cloud first strategy is organizations assume clouds are the ultimate data centers, that the organization can’t do it better themselves. The reality is that there are some functions where the cloud is more optimal. Then there…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, Latency, Migration, Object Storage, RAM, SSD, Velostrata, VM, WAN
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Is it Time to Retire Your NAS?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

It’s time to retire Network Attached Storage (NAS) – at least as we know it. These systems, glorified file servers, are over two decades old. In that time, users have become more mobile, and organizations more diverse. What seemed like…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…