Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
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Migration – The Storage Refresh Killer
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, Storage Refresh, Unstructured data
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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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Using the Cloud to Make IT Better: CTERA Cloud Storage Enablement
The public cloud has backed IT into a number of uncomfortable places; specifically, there are a number of environments where company data is being created in places where it is difficult to protect. This is especially true for smaller companies…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, CTERA, Data Protection, Deduplication, Encryption, Replication
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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them
Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Hybrid, Latency, QOS, Replication
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Build your DRaaS
DRaaS is the future of disaster recovery, but leveraging cloud backup may be an expensive way to implement it. Cloud replication, because it is operating on the working set, keeps cloud storage costs contained. The cloud replication software also enables organizations with an IT ready secondary site to leverage that site and create their own DRaaS. In either case, the organization is in control of when and how recovery happens. DRaaS built on replication also enables organizations to use the replication software to enable other cloud initiatives like bursting and test/dev. In this article Storage Switzerland explores the various methods to go about creating and implementing a DRaaS solution.
Tagged with: Baas, Backup, CSP, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, MSP, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Zerto
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Backing up Massive Cloud Databases
Where traditional structured databases are seeing a reduction in growth, massively scalable databases that often run in the cloud are taking off. But like so many advances in technology, scale out databases like MongoDB and Cassandra are solving one group…
Tagged with: API, Backup, Cloud, Datos IO, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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What Exactly is Software Defined Storage?
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) separates the storage software from the storage hardware. The result should be a model that allows organizations to buy storage hardware systems from multiple vendors that address specific use cases but have the ability to operate, not…
NetApp Finally Pivots
Last month I attended Storage Field Day 9, which included a two-hour presentation at NetApp headquarters. My summary statement of what I learned from the briefing is that NetApp is pivoting. By that I mean that they seem to have…
Moving Data Between Clouds w/AltaVault & OnCloud
NetApp is doing some truly interesting things under their OnCloud heading, including Cloud OnTap, Private Storage for Cloud, and AltaVault. While some of them are definitely OnTap centric and the kind of thing we have come to expect from NetApp,…
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