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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on March 9, 2018 by George Crump

The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Why IT Needs a New Data Protection Strategy for Unstructured Data

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data has always been a sore spot for the data protection process. The growth in the number of files that make up unstructured data sets and the capacity that they consume now threatens to break the data protection model…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, BLI, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Restoration, Retention, Unstructured data
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Multi-Cloud is a Reality – How to Deal With it – NooBaa Briefing Note

Posted on March 2, 2018 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud, the idea of using a variety of cloud service providers based on their capabilities or who has the best price sounds great. While it sounds great that organizations will have the foresight to systematically review and move workloads in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, GDPR, Hybrid, Migration, Multi-Cloud, NooBaa, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, Unstructured data
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Machine Learning, AI and IoT have a File System Problem

Posted on March 1, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data applications are increasingly IO hungry. It’s a problem that impacts not only the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market, but also the traditional enterprise as they start initiatives like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). In…

Tagged with: AI, Data Direct Networks, DDN, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, HPC, Hybrid, IoT, Machine Learning, Metadata, NVMe, Replication, Scale, Unstructured data
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Webinar: NAS Refresh? – 5 Reasons to Consider the Cloud

Posted on March 1, 2018 by George Crump

Storage refreshes are something that every data center goes through. However, the most painful are NAS refreshes. It is not just the painful migration of data from the old NAS to the new NAS but also the tedious process of…

Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Migration, NAS, Unstructured data
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The Big Fail – Why is Enterprise File Sync and Share STILL Failing?

Posted on February 28, 2018 by George Crump

A recent Forrester survey indicated that 56% of enterprise respondents either have implemented an Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) solution or are in the process of installing one. At first glance, that looks good for EFSS vendors. However, on…

Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on February 27, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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How to Improve Recovery Confidence

Posted on February 21, 2018 by George Crump

Almost every recent survey done on the state of backup indicates a very low level of confidence in an organization’s ability to recover in the event of a disaster. There are three reasons for this result. First, the management may…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Recovery, Recovery Objectives, Unitrends, Unstructured data, Virtualization, VM
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White Paper: Is Your DR Plan Ready for 2018?

Posted on February 15, 2018 by George Crump

When was the last time you looked at your disaster recovery plan? The beginning of a new year is an excellent time to review it and make sure it is ready for changes within your data center, and changes to…