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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Posted on January 13, 2015 by George Crump

Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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What is Hadoop and can Object Storage make it better?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by George Crump

Hadoop, first used by large cloud providers like Yahoo, Facebook and Google, is designed to allow massive amounts of compute resources to process very large, unstructured datasets. The technology is now firmly entrenched in government agencies and is now working…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Hadoop, HDFS, Metadata, Object, Object Storage
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Is Storage Management Overload making IT less relevant?

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…

Tagged with: Archive, Disaster recovery, Exablox, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Overload, Provisioning, Scale, Scale-Out
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WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
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OpenStack as a Virtual Machine Storage Platform

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

Recently we sat down with Wim Provost, Product Manager for Open vStorage, for a podcast to discuss their new solutions that better enable OpenStack to run virtual machines. OpenStack is a set of open source software tools, typically used by…

Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, OpenStack, Virtual machine, VM, VM Migration
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At EMC, the 3rd Platform is all about the Metadata

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage
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Seagate’s Kinetic Drives reduce Object Storage costs – now GA

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Eric Slack

After a one-year incubation, Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage Platform is now generally available. It features disk drives that communicate with applications over Ethernet, using a key-value architecture and RESTful APIs, instead of traditional protocols like SCSI or SATA. What’s different…

Tagged with: Capacity, Hard Drive, JBOD, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Seagate, TCO
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Reader Question: Is Object Storage for Normal Data Centers?

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

One of the things I like about participating on the forums on Spiceworks is I get great, raw questions. One came in this week during a discussion around object storage. “I’d like to consider myself reasonably clued up, but I…

Tagged with: Capacity, NAS, Object, Object Storage, RAID, RESTful interface, Storage
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Amplidata redefines “Scale-out” Storage and Improves Erasure Coding

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the meetings at the Next-Gen Storage Summit (NGSS) was by the Object Storage Alliance, a group of many of the companies in this technology space offering storage systems and related products. There was a lively discussion about what…

Tagged with: Amplidata, Architecture, Efficiency, Next Generation Storage Summit, Object Storage, Object Storage Alliance, Scale-Out
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End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…