Object storage is rising in popularity in data centers of all sizes. While many object storage vendors try to position it to be a replacement for NAS, doing so requires the vendor to provide some form of emulation so the…
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Adding Object Storage Capabilities To NAS – iXsystems Briefing Note
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, FMS2017, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Snapshot, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What’s Next in All-Flash?
All-Flash Arrays, once thought of as the storage system for certain high performance use cases, are now the mainstream primary storage system. The best proof point of all-flash dominance comes from vendors that sell hard disk, hybrid (flash and hard…
Moving Beyond The Flash Status Quo – E8 Storage Briefing Note
There are an increasing number of environments where the flash status quo will not deliver enough performance to meet the demands of the organization. IT planners at these data centers need to deliver unprecedented levels of application response time by…
Protecting Against Open S3 Buckets
Almost every week there is another incident of an Amazon S3 storage bucket being left open for anyone to access. These openings allowed data ranging from personal details of wireless customers to 200 million voter records to be exposed for…
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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SlideShare: What’s Next in Storage for Managed Service Providers?
How to Move Beyond Backup, to DRaaS, Copy Data Management and Primary Storage The cloud has brought both risk and reward to MSPs. In today’s hybrid cloud world, MSPs must deliver consumption-based, private and public cloud offerings to their clients.…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, MSP, Replication
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Webinar: How To Leverage Cloud Storage for Hybrid VMware
The VMware environment, for most data centers, is the beginning of their cloud journey. But they struggle with the next step, moving applications or storage to the cloud. Sure, there are applications to migrate or replicate virtual machines to the…
How Do You Search an Amazon S3 Bucket? – Scality Briefing Note
With Amazon S3’s native search capabilities, users are limited only to searching the name of the object. Most people however, want to search by many things in addition to the name of the object. Specifically, they would like to be…
Can You Actively Protect Against Ransomware? – Acronis Backup 12.5 Briefing Note
It is possible to identify and stop ransomware in its tracks. It’s also possible to recover from the damage that ransomware attacks cause. It requires a multi-level approach using intrusion detection systems, ransomware detection systems, and a backup and recovery…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Bare Metal, Cloud SQL, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VMware
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Beating Down The Local SSD Myth – E8 Storage Briefing Note
The All-Flash Array market is at a crossroads. The SSD drives they use are getting faster but the systems that hold those drives are not. Today a single NVMe SSD is capable of greater than 700k IOPS, but most AFA…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Container, E8, Fabril, Latency, NoSQL, NVMe, Replication, SQL, SSD, VM
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Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Hyperscale Data Centers – Excelero Briefing Note
A hyperscale data center may have hundreds of instances of multiple applications. At any point in time one of these instances may peak and demand a much higher than normal amount of CPU and storage IO, starving other instances and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, Convergence, CPU, Excelero, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, IOPS, Mirroring, NVMe, Replication, Software Defined, Virtualization
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