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Five Words That Will Define IT for the Next Five Years
Tagged with: Data Protection, DRAM, flash storage, NVMe, Private Cloud, Software Defined, Software Defined Storage, Technology, VMware, VMware Alternative
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VMware Alternatives: Ensuring Disaster Recovery Readiness
Organizations evaluating VMware alternatives focus on licensing costs, migration complexity, and feature parity. Disaster recovery rarely makes the shortlist, and that oversight can prove expensive. If the alternative cannot recover from a disaster efficiently, the cost of downtime and data…
The Economic Shift Supporting Private Cloud Adoption
VMware licensing costs and component prices surge while server supply tightens. Private cloud failed before because orchestrated stacks masked complexity rather than eliminating it. Technology maturity and economic pressure now make integrated private cloud platforms operationally essential and economically viable.
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Azure, Cloud, Private Cloud, Technology
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The VxRail Exit Options
Dell’s VxRail product line is losing strategic importance, urging customers to explore exit options. Four paths are available: maintaining the status quo, migrating hypervisors with storage replacement, transitioning to Dell Private Cloud, or adopting a private cloud OS like VergeOS. Each option has implications for costs, migration complexity, and operational efficiency. Organizations must evaluate based on infrastructure preservation, execution risk, and simplification post-transition. Delaying decisions may limit future choices as hardware ages and support contracts expire.
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, Technology, vcf, VMware, VMware Alternative, VSAN
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SlideShare – The 7 Key Reasons why Object Storage lowers Storage TCO
Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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The Best of both worlds – Cloudian HyperStore Appliance
In our prior article, we discussed how enterprise data centers have a need for software defined object storage technology that can leverage commodity hardware to drive down data center costs and to enable businesses to refresh their storage infrastructure with…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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The two worlds of Private Cloud Storage
Various industry sources estimate that unstructured data (user files, PDFs, email, rich multimedia, machine sensor data, etc.) accounts for upwards of 90% of all new data growth. Software-defined object storage offers an alternative approach to NAS/SAN systems. But many organizations…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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Reducing Storage TCO with Private Cloud Storage
With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Can Joe’s Plumbing benefit from Google and Facebook Storage?
Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Private Cloud Storage cost containment
Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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