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StorageShort: Breaking Data Migration Myths
Typically IT has to perform a data migration from an old storage system to a new one every few years. The old system has either come off of maintenance, is out of capacity, or can’t deliver the performance the organization…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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How To Integrate On-Premises Storage To Cloud Storage?
In response to a polling question in our recent webinar, “Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain,” 27 percent of the respondents indicated their biggest challenge was integrating on-premises storage with the cloud. While general data migration…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Use Your Metadata to Eliminate Storage Complexity
Organizations need to break down the walls between storage systems and data center locations. Seamless data movement eliminates the need for data migration, optimizes storage resources and even eliminates cloud lock-in. But how does the organization facilitate this movement without…
A Better Way To Flash Array
Despite the headlines, most data centers have not converted to all-flash arrays just yet. While they may have a few workloads that can benefit from flash performance, most of their workloads are performing just fine on a traditional hard disk-based…
ChalkTalk Video: How Do You End Migration Headaches?
Selecting a new storage system is a lot of work. After the difficult task of selecting the new storage system is complete then there is still one more BIG challenge; how to get old data to the new system? The…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Webinar: Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain
Transitioning from Data Migration to Data Management Migrating data for one-time projects is too time consuming and too expensive, so most companies have come to accept the pain of slow response times or substandard data availability and/or protection. If your…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
Primary Data Briefing Note VSAN customers now have access to file sharing services for their VMs with new functionality from Primary Data. As mentioned in a previous post, VMware is marketing VSAN as a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product; install VMware…
Overcoming Overprovisioning with Real-Time Scalability
Most data center administrators design storage infrastructures for peak load so when applications or users need the MOST performance or capacity, the system is able to meet the demand. The problem is that most of these peak demands occur occasionally…
Tagged with: Capacity, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Scalability, Virtualization, VM
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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