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How To Solve the Unstructured Data Paradox – WekaIO Briefing Note

Posted on July 12, 2017 by George Crump

There is a capacity and performance paradox to unstructured data that wastes IT budget and resources as IT tries to find the perfect solution. In terms of capacity, the organization has more and more data to store each year, and…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Flash, Hyperconverged, NAS, QOS, Scale, Unstructured data, WekaIO
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Is it Time to Retire Your NAS?

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

It’s time to retire Network Attached Storage (NAS) – at least as we know it. These systems, glorified file servers, are over two decades old. In that time, users have become more mobile, and organizations more diverse. What seemed like…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status Quo

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

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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NAS 2.0 Needs To Manage Capacity Differently

Posted on June 29, 2017 by George Crump

Being able to store terabytes or even petabytes of data is table stakes. It’s how data is managed that determines how effective a data driven organization will be in delivering value and controlling costs.The problem is most file systems and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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How Do You Manage Petabytes of Data?

Posted on June 19, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Managing petabytes of data is fundamentally harder than managing terabytes. Getting management wrong could cost the company thousands or worse lead data lost that could cost the company millions. Problems that you can ignore or confront with brute-force techniques with…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HGST, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Not Have your Backup System Provide CDM? – Unitrends Briefing Note

Posted on May 12, 2017 by wcurtispreston

If the updates coming out of the various backup software companies are any indication, copy data management (CDM) and instant recovery are mainstream features. In addition, some backup software products are finally starting to recognize the importance of creating and…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, RPO, RTO, SLA, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note

Posted on May 2, 2017 by wcurtispreston

It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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Are We Using Windows File Servers for the Wrong Reason?

Posted on April 13, 2017 by George Crump

Windows file servers are primarily used to store unstructured data. The type of unstructured data varies from user-created documents to machine-generated audio and video. They even store analytics data machines and other servers generate. While the type of data a…

Tagged with: Cache, Capacity, Caringo, Flash, Object Storage, SSD, Unstructured data
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Modern Applications and Object Storage

Posted on April 6, 2017 by George Crump

New applications like Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB, Hadoop, Splunk and Spark are the catalyst behind data center modernization. These apps provide the scale and flexibility that increase user engagement, enable better decision making and unleash more human creativity. But these solutions…

Tagged with: Container, Dell, EMC, IoT, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Understanding Object Storage Consumption Models

Posted on April 4, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage is quickly becoming the standard for storing large amounts of unstructured data. One of the most appealing aspects of object storage is its flexibility that spans a variety of storage infrastructure configurations and storage locations. This flexibility is…