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Meeting the Storage Challenges of Azure Stack Edge Deployments

Posted on December 9, 2019 by George Crump

The public cloud is typically looked on as the great consolidator. Organizations, small and large, use the cloud as a hub for data storage and distribution. Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of edge use cases, and the major…

Tagged with: Cloud, Edge Computing, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scale-Out, Scality, SMB, Software Defined
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Preparing Object Storage for the Cloud Data Management Avalanche

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Crump

Hybrid Cloud, thanks to its flexibility when deploying compute and storage, is the deployment architecture that most organizations are choosing for their cloud strategy. The challenge is that hybrid cloud, by its very nature, means that data is distributed across…

Tagged with: Assessment, Cloud, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NFS, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, STaaS, Unstructured data
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Object Storage

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

Object Storage is a storage technology that IT planners should include in their plans for 2019. The headline feature of object storage is incredibly low-cost storage that scales to meet almost any capacity demand. It’s true that object storage is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, EFSS, Hot2019, IoT, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality
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SlideShare: 2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?

Posted on December 21, 2018 by George Crump

Join Storage Switzerland, Caringo, Cloudian and Scality, for a roundtable discussion on Object Storage. Learn what you need to know to develop a strategy for object storage. Our panel of experts discuss what object storage is, what is better/different about…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Object Storage Vs. The Public Cloud – Friend or Foe

Posted on November 28, 2018 by George Crump

In our on demand webinar, “2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?” one of the key points of discussion will be about the cloud. Most cloud providers have a tier of storage built from object storage…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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What are the Best Use Cases for Object Storage?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

As part of our “2019 Strategies Series”, Storage Switzerland hosted a panel discussion “What’s Your Plan for Object Storage”, to help organizations create and implement an object storage strategy. Experts from Caringo, Cloudian and Scality joined Storage Switzerland for a…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloudian, file sync and share, GDPR, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality
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Webinar: 2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?

Posted on November 7, 2018 by George Crump

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Enabling a Multi-Cloud Reality – Scality Zenko Briefing Note

Posted on October 30, 2018 by George Crump

Most organizations today, whether they realize it or not, are already multi-cloud. They may be using one cloud to host cloud-native applications, another cloud to store backups of on-premises data, and using software as a service (SaaS) offerings, which may…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scality
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What is a Multi-Cloud Data Controller?

Posted on September 20, 2018 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud is real, most organizations have multiple cloud relationships and plan on maintaining them. Even AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in a recent Wall Street Journal Interview, “There will not be only one cloud…but rather a handful of large cloud…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Overcoming The Object Storage Stumbling Block – Complexity – Scality Briefing Note

Posted on August 15, 2018 by George Crump

The case for object storage is compelling. Object stores can scale to store hundreds of petabytes of information very cost-effectively. They also support a variety of unstructured data use cases including replacing NAS for storing home directories, long-term storage of…