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Subscriber Exclusive – ChalkTalk Video: The Problems with NFS on Object Storage

If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this and provide NFS support. The problem is most of these vendors leverage a NFS gateway to act as the bridge.

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Global IT Executive Summit – Blending Tape into Your Archive Strategy

It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense

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Maintaining Data Monetization Value over Time

It’s a fact that data stored on magnetic media degrades over time. It cannot be stopped; it can only be managed. It’s a problem that you must address if you plan to create a data monetization system that stores data

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Storage All-Star Team — All-Flash Filer with Object Storage

For over a decade, network attached storage systems (NAS) have tried to expand beyond the typical use case of a store for user home directories. Companies like NetApp maintain NFS is perfectly appropriate for supporting virtual infrastructures and Oracle databases.

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Performance Issues with a Full NetApp Filer

A full filer is not going to perform as well as one that has a little space to do its work. That’s why we’ve been talking about the concept of a “thin provisioned” filer, or a filer that has been

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StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem

If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this reality and most, if not all, are including capabilities so that allows for the transfer of storage to the object

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Is NetApp Still Right for Unstructured Data?

The NetApp FAS series of storage systems have the potential to be at the center of most enterprise’s storage infrastructure. But there are certain data sets that stretch a FAS too far. For these situations, enterprises need to look for

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Data Protection Advantages of a Thin Provisioned Filer

A thin provisioned filer is a happy filer – especially from a data protection standpoint. In this context a thin provisioned filer is a filer that has plenty of free space due to older unused files moved somewhere else. Unfortunately,

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SlideShare: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?

Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the

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Designing a Cost-Effective Data Monetization System

Three keys to a good data monetization system are collecting the right data, identifying and executing monetization against that data, and storing the data in a cost-effective way. It should go without saying that a data monetization system needs data,

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