Quantum Xcellis Scale-out NAS Briefing Note Unstructured data is polarizing. On one end, a large portion of unstructured data needs almost no performance, it just needs to be retained in case it is needed in the future. On the other…
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Dealing with the Polarization of Unstructured Data
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Big data, Cloud, HPC, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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StorNext System Evolves to Meet Increasing Data Performance and Storage Needs with StorNext6 Release
Organizations are struggling to deal with the problems of storing, protecting and sharing ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data. There are two primary causes of this struggle. First, too much of their primary data storage is consumed by “cold data” that…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, QOS, Quantum, Replication, SAN, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
How Important is Search to Scale-Out NAS?
Finding a file you wrote on your laptop’s hard drive can be difficult. If a file you collaborated on is stored on your department’s file server, it can be even more difficult to find. You just need to remember the…
Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger
Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…
Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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How to Design a Self-Protecting NAS
All primary storage systems protect themselves in some way. Most provide protection from media failure by leveraging some form of RAID. They also provide snapshot technology to protect against data corruption or user entry error. Many also provide the ability…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Disk array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Snapshot, Tape
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NAS 2.0 Must Preserve Data
About 85% of the data most organizations store has not been accessed in 90 days and most of it hasn’t been accessed in years. The reality is data managers really don’t know what’s in that data or if it is…
ChalkTalk Video: Can Disk Backups Have An “Air Gap?”
Ransomware is changing everyone’s thoughts about how backups should work. Put another way, many of the old ideas about backups are now back in vogue. One of those ideas is the 3-2-1 rule. It says enterprises should have three copies…
Tagged with: Air Gap, API, Corruption, Malware, NFS, Quantum, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: Using the 3-2-1 Rule To Protect Against Ransomware
Protection in the modern data center is changing. IT must provide backup to disk and an instant recover capability to meet the recovery expectations of application owners. But this rapid protection also puts data at risk to a ransomware attack.…
Tagged with: Backup, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, LTFS, LTO, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017, WAN
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Do NAS Systems Need More Than NFS & SMB?
Many years ago when the NAS market was born, it was very simple to distinguish between NAS systems and SAN systems. SAN systems ran on Fibre Channel and NAS systems ran on Ethernet. SAN systems used block protocols like SCSI…
NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently
Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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