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DropBox Turns to On-Premise Storage Rather than the Cloud, Saves $Millions
A story published on GeekWire should make many organizations rethink their storage strategies. It recounts how DropBox bucked industry trends by moving its popular file-storage service away from the cloud—AWS’s S3 storage service—to its own infrastructure...
And the trends for 2018…
FLASH IS STILL HOT Let’s look further into trending storage technologies. Of course, a sea change has been the adoption of solid-state drives (SSDs). First generation SSDs improved performance and lowered power consumption over their mechanical counterparts, but were...
Hyper-convergence vs Convergence
Once upon a time, enterprises bought the components needed to deliver IT services, cobbled them together, and with a little sweat and aggravation, got them to work. Demands for more robust services prompted companies to turn to best-of-breed solutions, but this...
Cloud Storage Hosting
Storage has always been a primary reason why companies turn to cloud computing. Clouds are ideal for backing up data and storing archival data. This is underscored by the advent of object storage, which makes vast data stores practical. Over time, providers offered...
All-Flash Storage Promises a Go-To Strategy for MSPs
Managed service providers (MSPs) need to offer fast, affordable storage. Storage is a perennial concern for enterprises of all sizes, and many are considering offloading their storage to reduce costs and headaches. But to win storage business, MSPs face formidable...
Storage Upheavals Are Opportunities for MSPs (Managed Service Providers)
For years, the storage business had been reasonably stable. Primary storage was local and backed-up data were nearby or at remote sites along with archived data. Production files were rapidly accessible, and governance and compliance demands were more or less met. The...
Hybrid vs Public Clouds; Which makes sense for you?
If your organization is not utilizing some form of a cloud, the odds are it soon will. Your question will be what kind cloud—public, private, or hybrid? Private clouds can be dedicated clouds provided by vendors in which no resources are shared by any other customer....
HDD vs SSD Storage
How do solid-state drives (SSDs) stack up to traditional hard-disk drives? Like many things in life, it depends on money and what you need. SSDs deliver greater performance than HDDs, especially faster, more predictable read times. SSD performance will only increase...
All-Flash Storage Arrays (AFAs)
For years, the world relied on hard disk drives (HDDs) to store digital information. These electro-magnetic devices worked well and their costs per gigabyte continually decreased. However, they had inherent performance constraints because of the time they required to...
And the trends for 2017…
At the beginning of every year, it’s customary to pull out the crystal ball and project trends for the new year. Often, however, promising solutions fail to catch on because of reasons like their technologies are not yet mature or economics still favor other strategies. With that said, below are some trends that we’re confident are good bets for 2017.
Affordable Flash Storage Has Arrived
The evolution of flash drives is inevitable. Like other disruptive technologies, it offers substantial advantages over legacy solutions—in this case, spinning disks—but its initial costs limited its adoption to such enterprise applications as high-speed transactional...
Smart Choices for Building, or Building Out, Networked-Attached Storage
Networked-attached storage (NAS) remains a sound strategy for delivering applications and shared storage, especially for enterprises that seek to avoid the costs and complexities of storage-area networks (SANs).
OpenStack & Ceph—Storage that is Function-rich, Flexible, and Free
OpenStack is a viable solution for many enterprise data centers. OpenStack is a free, open-source software platform that enables organizations to construct and manage public and private clouds. Its components manage processing, networking, and storage on hardware...
What is Erasure Coding and When Should it Be Used?
RAID has long been a mainstay of data protection. RAID protects against data loss from bad blocks or bad disks by either mirroring data on multiple disks in a storage array or adding parity blocks to the data, which allows for the recovery of failed blocks. Now...
The Scale-Out Virtues of Object Storage
File- and block-based storage are well established, but a third alternative, object storage, is hardly new technology. Today, there are countless petabytes of object storage in public clouds, and hundreds of millions of Facebook, Google, and Twitter users routinely...