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Getting Object Storage Ready for the Enterprise – Scality Briefing Note

There’s no question that the enterprise is starting to use object storage, even if you only consider the use of the various public cloud storage vendors, as they all use object storage interfaces. Of course, many people storing their corporate

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StorageShort: M&E – Content Distribution, Performance vs. Cost

One of the challenges facing Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies today is content distribution. No longer are users starting at their televisions screens waiting for content to come to them. They want access to the content when they want to

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The Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments?

For most High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, high performance storage is a critical component in the infrastructure. The storage systems need to feed the compute infrastructure as quickly as possible. With object storage improving its performance and adding flash to

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Overcoming the M&E Data Delivery Challenge

IT professionals who work for Media and Entertainment (M&E) organizations face a myriad of new challenges such as dealing with the data capacity demands of higher and higher resolution cameras and preserving that data for decades. While these challenges are

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High Performance Object vs. High Performance NAS

Object Storage can take on a lot of roles in the enterprise. This flexibility is one the key values of object storage, the ability to serve as storage for a variety of use cases. With most of those use cases

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StorageShort: Object Storage for the Enterprise

Object Storage is more than just a storage system for cloud providers. In the modern enterprise it can be an ideal back-end for the various primary tiers enterprises can install today. Beyond the cost savings object storage provides, there is

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StorageShort: How Do you Connect HPC to Object Storage?

There are many ways a high performance computing (HPC) environment can leverage object storage. But the most practical for most HPC environments is to use it as a secondary tier that is more cost effective and still delivers data quickly.

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Webinar: Preserve, Distribute and Deliver – M&E’s Three Biggest Data Challenges

The world of Media and Entertainment (M&E) is constantly changing and those changes impact M&E IT. The challenges M&E IT professionals face are far greater than the obvious problem of increasing data and file size. Certainly, building storage infrastructures designed

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Creating Private Cloud Storage that you can Actually use

While public cloud storage systems have enjoyed incredible growth and success, these architectures have not yet enjoyed anything close to the same success in the traditional data center. Perhaps it’s because these organizations don’t think they need it, or perhaps

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Should Backups and DR be separate Systems?

Backup and DR can be separate systems, but do not have to be. Modern advances in backup and DR technology make it possible to have a single integrated system to satisfy the needs of both, and I can think of

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