The longer you keep data, the more it makes sense to move it off of primary storage and into a different kind of system. It makes financial sense, as discussed in the previous blog entry. It also makes sense for…
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NAS vs. Object: Data Archive – Long Term Efficiencies
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Solve the NetApp Storage Performance Problem
IT organizations select NetApp storage because it excels at managing unstructured data. When NetApp first introduced the filer concept, the data it was intended to store was typically user created files from office productivity applications. The files were created, modified,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Flash, I/O, NetApp, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object: The Dollar Per GB Challenge
Spending top dollar to store older fixed content on the typical network attached storage system (NAS) filer is more than just a waste of money — it’s actually spending more to get less. Using an object-based storage system may be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Disaster Proof Local On-Site Backups
Briefing Note – ioSafe’s BDR 515 There are few things better than a local copy of your data center when the worst happens. Unfortunately, events that destroy your data center also take out your backup system. Most people use tapes…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, ioSafe, NAS, Replication, Tape
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MeetTheCEO: Getting to Zero With Vision Solutions’ Alan Arnold
You can call this edition of Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCTO when we talk to the Chief Technical Officer for Vision Solutions Alan Arnold. As Executive Vice President and CTO, Arnold is responsible for the company’s global technology, services…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, dr, HA, MeetTheCEO, Migration, Replication, Vision Solutions
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Does Object Storage kill RAID?
Like a lot of technologies that are past their prime, RAID will continue to serve a function for a very long time. It’s an inexpensive way to string together multiple drives and protect yourself against the loss of one or…
Tagged with: Erasure Coding, Node, Object Storage, RAID, Replication, Scalable, Unstructured data
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Hyper-convergence for Distributed Data Centers
Atlantis Computing Briefing Note Hyper-converged architectures (HCA) could be an ideal solution for enterprises looking to equip their distributed data centers. HCA has the potential to consolidate the remote IT needs to a few servers. These distributed data centers typically…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Distributed Data Center, HCA, Hyper-converged Architectures, Replication, WAN
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Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”…
What is Converged Data Management?
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Flash, Replication, ROI, Rubrik, VM
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