There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…
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Unified Storage 2.0
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Webinar: The Four Requirements of a Cloud-Era File System
File systems are the heart of most organizations. They’re how critical unstructured data assets are stored, organized, and shared. But with files exploding in size and quantity as well as the cloud offering potentially cheaper and more scalable storage than…
ChalkTalk Video: Merging Storage Silos
It seems like today’s data center has a storage system for every occasion. There is NAS for unstructured data, block for databases, archive systems to meet compliance demands, data protection storage to store backups and now mobility storage to meet…
Unstructured Business Continuity
When IT planners think of business continuity they often think of databases and applications the organization needs to sustain operations. But what about unstructured data? Does unstructured data need the same level of business continuity that structured data does? How…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status Quo
Between 2010 and 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data created by humans and enterprises will increase 50x. Legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems can’t meet the unstructured data demands of the mobile workforce or distributed organizations. In this…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, ROI, Unstructured data
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Solving Today’s Problems With A Cloud Future – Elastifile FMS Briefing Note
The term “cloud first” comes up often in IT circles these days. It’s a concept that calls for each new application an organization is bringing online, IT should consider the “cloud first” as a place to host that application. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, DRaaS, Elastifile, FMS2017, NAS, Scale-Out, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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StorageShort: Designing a Multiple Location NAS
In an effort to find talent many organizations have multiple locations so employees don’t have to move across the country or suffer through multiple hour commutes. Technology is the key enabler to having a number of locations but there is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?
The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Taking Advantage of Object Stores Like EMC ECS – Right Now
Object storage is the storage methodology for the future of unstructured data and more. Next generation applications are able to write directly to object storage and take advantage of its sophisticated resource management capabilities. But enterprises have unstructured data problems…
Tagged with: Cloud, ECS, IoT, Malware, NAS, NFS, NTP, NTP Software, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, Unique ID, Unstructured data
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Why is Unstructured Data So Important?
A lot of the advancements happening in storage seem to be for unstructured data. Why is that? Have all of the problems for databases been solved? It’s not like databases are no longer important. But what does seem to be…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Facial Recognition, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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