Using the Nasuni Service to solve File Data Challenges
File data, also known as unstructured data, is one of the biggest challenges facing IT. Users want seamless access to this data no matter where they are or how old the data is. IT needs to manage the...
View ArticleBriefing Note: Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Extends Value of File Sync and...
Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that...
View ArticleLeveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems
Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is...
View ArticleBriefing Note: Springpath Delivers SDS from the Ground Up
In the future, the data center’s storage architecture should be able to scale elastically, automatically adapting to performance demands. It should also be more than just reliable; it should be...
View ArticleIT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion
IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and...
View ArticleBriefing Note: MobileFAST Extends Distributed Enterprise File Sharing to...
Storage Switzerland was briefed last fall about Talon FAST solutions that are designed to provide secure file sharing between remote locations or branch offices of a company. Installed in those branch...
View ArticleThe easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better
Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the...
View ArticleHyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a...
View ArticleChalkTalk Video: Designing Storage for Social Discovery
There is a lot of storage cost for “social discovery” websites – sites that deliver content based on specific search requirements – to store their petabytes of collected data. The need to provide near...
View ArticleSlideShare: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better
Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and...
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