InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
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Managing Active Unstructured Data
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, Capacity, DRAM, Flash, InterModal Data, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, performance, QOS, Unstructured data
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work
The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…
Backup is not Archive
In order to protect their data while dealing with explosive data growth, many organizations have started backing up their data to the cloud in an effort to reduce their storage and data center costs as well as obtaining data redundancy…
Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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What’s better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data?
The low upfront cost of cloud storage has great appeal. Almost any organization can purchase 100TB of storage instantly and only make the initial payment (month, quarter, and year). However, there is a problem with cloud storage that most cloud…
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
Selecting the Right OpenStack Storage Module
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
Tagged with: Backup, Block Based Storage, CIFS, Cloud, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale-Out, SwiftStack, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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ChalkTalk Video: Valets vs. Parking Lots – Explaining Object Storage
Object storage is ideal for storing unstructured data. Understanding why it is so good at object storage is the challenge. In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sanjay Patel, an Advisory Systems Engineer for EMC,…
Too much of a Good Thing? IBM Buys Cleversafe
The industry is mesmerized by all things flash and sometimes forgets that IT professionals have other challenges to face than just meeting the performance demands of the modern data center. One of those is dealing with unstructured data. Data centers…
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