Most of the time when unstructured data is created there is never a need to access it again. But it is still necessary to store it just in case you need it. When the “just in case” scenario occurs, you…
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Avere FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer Product Analysis
For quite some time now, organizations have been struggling with increasingly expensive and complex infrastructures as they fight to control and protect the ever-increasing avalanche of unstructured data. At the same time, they need to meet the demands from users…
Tagged with: application performance, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, SSD, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Solve the NetApp Storage Performance Problem
IT organizations select NetApp storage because it excels at managing unstructured data. When NetApp first introduced the filer concept, the data it was intended to store was typically user created files from office productivity applications. The files were created, modified,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Flash, I/O, NetApp, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Unstructured data
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Posted in Blog
NAS vs. Object: The Dollar Per GB Challenge
Spending top dollar to store older fixed content on the typical network attached storage system (NAS) filer is more than just a waste of money — it’s actually spending more to get less. Using an object-based storage system may be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object Storage – Why Legacy NAS isn’t keeping Pace
When it comes to managing unstructured data the data center has problems. The legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems that it uses to store this data are no longer keeping pace with the demands of the modern data center. As…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Unstructured data, Web Object Scaler
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Webinar: NAS vs. Object Storage: 10 Reasons Why Object Storage Will Win
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and file servers were the foundation of collaboration in the 90’s. These storage systems primarily served the needs of users that needed to share files for projects. In the 2000’s NAS systems found a lease…
Tagged with: Caringo, File server, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Posted in Webinar
Does Object Storage kill RAID?
Like a lot of technologies that are past their prime, RAID will continue to serve a function for a very long time. It’s an inexpensive way to string together multiple drives and protect yourself against the loss of one or…
Tagged with: Erasure Coding, Node, Object Storage, RAID, Replication, Scalable, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Hitachi’s HSP Hyper-Converged Appliance makes Big Data Analytics fit the Enterprise
Big Data Analytics uses distributed computing architectures, on platforms like Hadoop, to run large processing jobs on even larger datasets. Since data being processed in a Hadoop environment usually needs to be resident on the compute nodes themselves, this can…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, Data Lake, Hadoop, HDS, Hyper-convergence, Infrastructure, Scale-Out, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Enterprise Grade SDS
SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Briefing Note Industry Analysts predict that Software Defined Storage (SDS) will replace enterprise class storage over the next five to ten years. The key drivers for this displacement are increased cost and flexibility as well as…
Tagged with: Capacity, Linux, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE, Unstructured data
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