For over a decade Network Attached Storage (NAS) was the go to file storage device for organizations needing to store large amounts of unstructured data. But unstructured data is changing. While large file use cases are still prevalent, small file…
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Webinar: NAS vs Object – Can NAS Make a Comeback?
Tagged with: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo
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Lightboard Video: What is the Next Generation of NAS?
Unstructured data continues to grow unabated and traditional network attached storage (NAS) systems simply can’t keep pace. These systems are often cloud ignorant, can’t deal with the growing population of small file workloads and provide almost no insight into the…
Modernizing NAS Instead of Replacing It – Qumulo Briefing Note
Organizations are almost universally struggling with storing and managing their unstructured data. From a storage system perspective, vendors offer legacy NAS systems, object storage systems and cloud storage services, all trying to convince IT professionals that they are the best…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, Qumulo, SAS, Unstructured data
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Understanding Gartner’s Object Storage Quadrant
Analyst firm Gartner released its latest version of its Magic Quadrant for object storage that attempts to rank and organize the distributed file system and object storage system market. Instead, it really creates more questions and confusion instead of providing…
Fix Files or Move To Objects – Qumulo Briefing Note
Object storage has been getting a lot of attention lately. This new way of storing data does not require the old metaphors of volumes and folders. Data is stored in a flat architecture and then each object (file) is assigned…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Fabric, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Replication, Software Defined, Unique ID
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Solve Your Storage Headache – Unlimited Scale but Controlled – Qumulo Core 2.6 Briefing Note
Then and Now Over the last decade, organizations have experienced massive changes in the data center and the storage industry. Workloads found in modern data centers today are vastly different from what was common back in the days of dedicated…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Scale, Virtualization, VM
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Raising the Bar for Data Aware Scale-out NAS – Qumulo Briefing Note
Over a year ago, Qumulo released a new data-aware scale-out NAS solution designed to address what it considers a key weakness in scale-out storage – Increased data management complexity when adding nodes to the cluster. This means most scale-out NAS…
MeetTheCEO Podcast – Qumulo’s Peter Godman
In this week’s MeetTheCEO Qumulo‘s Peter Godman joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company’s product, Qumulo Core, the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for the…
Storage news and insight update 3-21 – Podcast
George Crump joins me to talk about some of the latest in storage news and insight for the week of March 21, 2015. Links to the articles in this podcast: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS Physical Servers Matter…
Briefing Note: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS
Scale-out storage has a fundamental weakness, according to startup Qumulo, it can grow easily but also increases data management requirements as it does capacity. This means that as storage systems grow they get less efficient and more expensive to run,…
Tagged with: Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Object, performance, Qumulo, Scale-Out, SSD
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