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What does your data need?

Have you ever needed to get somewhere really quickly? Consider the things that go through your mind. This parallels how storage management is typically done in today’s data centers. But we could do better. For example, what if you lived

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The Road to Data Mobility – Consolidation, Storage Virtualization or Data Virtualization?

Storage consolidation is a lost cause. Why? The reason is that both the storage hardware and the use cases for that hardware are too different from each other. I outlined the problems in detail in my blog The Need for

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The Need for Storage Fragmentation

Here is the goal: Having a data center that consolidates all data onto a single storage system from one vendor. The hope is that by consolidating to a single system, the organization will reduce management headaches that IT administrators face

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SlideShare: Designing Storage and Apps to Enable Data Monetization

The old ways of managing unstructured data through file servers and network attached storage (NAS) systems were basically “store and forget” architectures. Today, unstructured data is more intertwined to the actual application. Unstructured data is often monetized, has financial value

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The Problems with Data Monetization

Data Monetization is leveraging an organization’s existing data to either increase profits or efficiency. This data can come from a variety of sources including modern devices like the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors and cameras. But it can also

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NAS vs. Object: Making the Migration

Using new technology can be hard. Getting to the new technology is often the hardest part, and there are a few keys to making that migration as painless as possible. Painful migrations can create the worst of all situations –

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Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes

Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to

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MeetTheCEO: Scality’s Jerome Lecat

Sometimes the best traveled roads take you around some curves. That’s the kind of road Jerome Lecat is traveling with his company Scality. In this episode on Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk to Lecat about his

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