One of the seemingly endless tasks of today’s IT infrastructure planner is finding more ways to squeeze costs out of the data center environment. With data growth soaring across all industries, it is not surprising that storage is often at…
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Lowering the Cost of Deleting Data
While the cost of raw data storage keeps dropping, the cost of deleting obsolete or inappropriate data can be prohibitive. No one wants to delete the file that might be needed someday. This results in the accumulation of data that has both cost and compliance ramifications. The key is to lower that risk by identifying good candidates for deletion. In this article Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack details the cost associated with file deletion and how to lower them through comprehensive file analysis.
Tagged with: Backup, File Analysis, File Storage, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, SolarWinds
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
What Object Storage Provides
In a recent column we talked about what exactly object storage is, a storage software architecture that puts data into discrete ‘containers’ (called objects) and accesses them through an ID number and a simple index. We also discussed what object…
What Object Storage Is – and What It is Not
Object storage has been around for a number of years but is now getting more attention. This is due to a couple of factors: the amount of data, especially file data, is continuing to grow and the length of time…
Tagged with: Architecture, File system, Metadata, NAS, Object, Object ID Number, Object Storage
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A Solution to the Problem of ‘Forever Data’
Data sets are growing, but so are the periods of time that they’re being saved. Once primarily driven by regulatory compliance, companies are now finding that there are other factors pushing data retention to seemingly unlimited duration. The repurposing of…
Tagged with: BlackPearl, Deep Storage, InfiniBand, Linear Tape File System, LTFS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape drive, Tape library
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Object Storage 101
Strictly speaking, object storage refers to a system where data is stored in discrete buckets or “objects”, in contrast to the directories and subdirectories of a traditional file system. It can be implemented in any storage architecture, but is usually…
Tagged with: File system, Hardware, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Scalability, Unstructured data
Posted in Article
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Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent
One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…
Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Scale-Out NAS or Object Storage?
Unstructured data is becoming a big headache for many organizations. By some estimates, this type of data (user files, emails, PDFs, images, videos, etc.) now accounts for up to 90% of all new data growth. While most of this information quickly…
Tagged with: Amazon S3, Cloudian, CloudStack, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, OpenStack, Scalability
Posted in Article, White Paper
Posted in Article, White Paper
Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs
Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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