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Is NetApp Still Right for Unstructured Data?

Posted on September 8, 2016 by George Crump

The NetApp FAS series of storage systems have the potential to be at the center of most enterprise’s storage infrastructure. But there are certain data sets that stretch a FAS too far. For these situations, enterprises need to look for…

Tagged with: Caringo, Machine-generated, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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SlideShare: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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Data Monetization and the Art of Data Collection

Posted on August 25, 2016 by George Crump

Data Monetization is the art of extracting value from an organization’s existing data assets. For example, monetary value of data can come from creating a new video product from an old one, or can come from the analysis of years…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Monetization, Data Repository, IoT, Metadata, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Flash for Files

Posted on August 24, 2016 by George Crump

Flash-based storage systems continue to make inroads into the enterprise. Initially those inroads started as flash systems targeted at improving database response time. Then it spread to virtual workloads to alleviate the IO blender. Now, flash storage is on the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Areal Density, Density, Flash, HDD, IBM, SSD, Unstructured data
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Getting Data Off a Filer and Living to Tell About It

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are primary storage systems, which are ideal for providing very fast access to “hot” (active) data sets that change frequently. Organizations have continuously added capacity to these systems to keep pace with the ever-rising tide…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Cold Data, HSM, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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StorageShort: NAS to Object Storage Requires Automation

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

Object Storage can make a perfect back end storage repository for NAS systems that are at capacity, and many object storage vendors provide some sort of gateway like functionality so that their object store looks like an NFS store. The…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support

Posted on August 12, 2016 by George Crump

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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What is Data Monetization?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh…

Tagged with: Big data, Caringo, Data Monetization, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Object Storage with High Performance and Security

Posted on July 28, 2016 by wcurtispreston

If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise…