Object storage is a method to store data. Most IT professionals are familiar with the more traditional Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file system approach. Both are a way of organizing and storing data on a storage system. POSIX mimics…
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What Exactly is Object Storage?
Tagged with: Dell, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, POSIX, Redundancy, Tape, Unstructured data
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Putting the Data Monetization Architecture to Work
People who spend money on things instead of just talking about them are said to be putting their money where their mouth is. Data monetization extracts money from where your customers’ mouths are. That is, it allows you to learn…
Object Storage FAQ
One of the things I like about Spiceworks is the website’s user forums. They give a good sense of what is going on in the trenches of IT. Recently a user asked a series of questions about Object Storage. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Harnessing the Data Beast
Briefing Note: Komprise Releases Effective Data Management Solution As organizations today struggle to contain runaway data sprawl from an ever-increasing avalanche of unstructured data, they are aware that a significant amount (as much as 90 percent in many cases) of…
Putting the P Back in Disaster Recovery Planning
It seems that sometimes we forget the third letter in the acronym “DRP” (Disaster Recovery Planning). The “P” stands for “planning” and it is something that busy data center administrators replace with “make it up as you go along”. The…
Designing an All-Flash Object Store
Object storage is set to become THE way organizations will store unstructured data. As this transition occurs those same organizations are expecting more from object storage than just a “cheap and deep” way to store information. They expect the system…
Tagged with: Flash, Latency (engineering), Metadata, Nexenta, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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Global IT Executive Summit – Blending Tape into Your Archive Strategy
It comes as no surprise to IT professionals that data is growing and 90 percent of that growth is unstructured data. Users will not access 80 percent of that unstructured data after 90 days. It simply does not make sense…
Tagged with: Archive, Flash, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, HPE, LTFS, LTO, NAS, Object Storage, ROI, Tape, Unstructured data
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Global IT Executive Summit – Overcoming The Tape Negatives
Each year FujiFilm sponsors the Global IT Executive Summit. This year’s event is in Boston. The focus is, of course, tape, and its goal is to convince IT professionals that tape is alive and well. Let’s be clear, Storage Switzerland’s…
StorageShort: The NFS to Object Storage Problem
If object storage is the future of unstructured data storage, NFS is clearly the present. Object storage vendors realize this reality and most, if not all, are including capabilities so that allows for the transfer of storage to the object…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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