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…
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What is a Multi-Cloud Data Controller?
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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A Step-by-Step Path to Full Cloud Utilization
The Use Cases for a Cloud Data Fabric The cloud data fabric (CDF) allows organizations without a cloud pedigree to take full advantage of cloud storage and compute resources. The CDF also enables the organization to move to the cloud…
Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Migrating Applications to the Cloud
A key component of most organization’s cloud strategy is migrating applications to a cloud provider to reduce dependence on on-premises infrastructure. The organization may want to host the application entirely in the cloud, use the cloud as a failover point…
Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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Commercial HPC Requirements Checklist – Item 4 – Transparent Operation
Commercial HPC makes products better, makes customers happier and improves organizational processes. The infrastructures that support commercial HPC need to accomplish those objectives transparently. The commercial HPC storage system, being one component of those systems, needs to remove the mundane…
Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Data Protection
Most organizations use data protection as their first step into the cloud. Unfortunately, that first step, like many first steps, often results in a stumble. If organizations don’t create a cloud data fabric first, they often use an extension to…
Webinar: Why Cloud Migrations Fail – Learn the Keys to Cloud Success
Many cloud migration and cloud first strategies fail to live up to expectations. The problem is organizations spend too much time on micro issues like product selection and not enough time on big picture items like the cloud strategy’s foundation.…
More than Migration: Developing a Holistic Cloud Strategy
Most organizations are considering how to take advantage of the tremendous resources made available by the cloud. The first step for many of these organizations is to create a cloud migration strategy. As part of this strategy, the organization decides…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas
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Overcoming The Object Storage Stumbling Block – Complexity – Scality Briefing Note
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…
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The Architectures behind Cloud Storage
Each of the major cloud providers deliver at least three different types of cloud storage; high performance, archive and cold storage. Each of these storage types share the pay-as-you-go cloud expectation but each differ in terms of cost and performance.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, NFS, Object Storage, ROI, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, StorONE
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The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist – Item 2 – Start Small, Scale Large
Scaling is a capability that almost every vendor claims but few execute well. Most vendors claim to provide scalability via a scale-out storage system, but scale-out by itself is not enough to address all the scaling demands of a Commercial…
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