Object Storage dominates the unstructured data discussion. But many organizations need high performance NFS, SMB and even Apple’s AFP to meet the demand of various use cases in markets like M&E, Science, HPC and Oil and Gas. The more traditional…
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High Performance NAS in an Object World – Rozo Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Rozo, Scale-Out, SMB
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Posted in Briefing Note
Look Before You Leap into DRaaS – Scale Computing Briefing Note
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves a lot of problems for IT professionals trying to prepare their organizations to survive a disaster. At the same time, though, it also creates new challenges that need to be resolved prior to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DRaaS, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, SMB, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Can the Cloud Solve the Archive Problem?
The cloud seems like an ideal place to archive data. It provides a pay-as-you-grow model and enables the organization to begin to shrink the size of its on-premises storage footprint. The problem is, though, the three big providers (Amazon AWS,…
Can Ransomware Infect Your Backups? – BackupAssist Briefing Note
It should come as no great surprise that ransomware is one of the scariest challenges for data protection people today. Black hats have figured out they can make more money faster by going after small and medium businesses than simply…
Tagged with: Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, Ransomware, SMB, SQL, Windows
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Posted in Briefing Note
How Are Backup Software Products Responding to Ransomware?
Backup software products are starting to adopt anti-ransomware features – and that’s a good thing. Ransomware has clearly expanded beyond consumers and is regularly attacking businesses and government entities. But not every backup company is convinced this is a problem…
SlideShare: The Showdown for Data Preservation: Iron Mountain vs. The Cloud
Join Storage Switzerland and CloudLanes for our on demand webinar as we compare Iron Mountain to the cloud and provide ways to solve the gaps in public cloud storage’s ability to be a viable data preservation service. Every organization needs…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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Posted in Slideshare
StorageShort: Active Archives Need Rapid Recalls
The problem with the term “data archiving” is it implies a method to store data that hasn’t been accessed in a while and likely will never be accessed again. The of goal of archiving is to reduce costs by moving…
Tagged with: Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, NFS, Replication, SMB, Virtual
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
NAS 2.0 Must Preserve Data
About 85% of the data most organizations store has not been accessed in 90 days and most of it hasn’t been accessed in years. The reality is data managers really don’t know what’s in that data or if it is…
Leveraging the Cloud For Data Distribution
For organizations with multiple offices where employees need access to the same data at the same time, leveraging the cloud for unstructured data storage make sense. Not only does it help with data distribution, it also helps ease data management…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: Can Disk Backups Have An “Air Gap?”
Ransomware is changing everyone’s thoughts about how backups should work. Put another way, many of the old ideas about backups are now back in vogue. One of those ideas is the 3-2-1 rule. It says enterprises should have three copies…
Tagged with: Air Gap, API, Corruption, Malware, NFS, Quantum, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017
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