Distributed storage arose to meet a growing array of needs confronting enterprises. We’ve long known that data is the lifeblood of our businesses. Leveraging data is how we prosper and grow. Yet, how do we keep our data safe and private? We need to safeguard our...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Some systems are closed and proprietary while others are open and free. A fine example of the latter is OpenStack, a set of free, open-source software tools for building and managing very scalable public and private clouds. OpenStack enables organizations of all...
Most people by now have a sense of what clouds are. When IT services and resources are hosted offsite somewhere else, they are often in clouds. But clouds have certain characteristics that define them, as opposed to simple offsite hosting. Clouds are elastic in that...