On-Premise as-a-Service: OpEx Storage Lets You Pay As You Go & Save
It’s Always Cheaper to Pay Up Front. (Is it?)
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January 25, 2016
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Storage Data Protection Options and Best Practices
There are many horror stories told about the risks of not implementing an adequate data protection regime. Here are just a few to set the scene:
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January 13, 2016
Comparing AWS EBS vs. Zadara VPSA (And Why Zadara Doesn’t Sit on Top of EBS)
A recurring question our new customers ask is: “are you providing a storage solution on top of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS)?” While there are those vendors who employ this approach, Zadara delivers an enterprise solution by allocating individual physical drives to each customer that are completely isolated from those of other customers and from the EBS infrastructure.
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January 11, 2016
Our 2016 Storage “Anti-Predictions”
As we enter 2016, this is a perfect time to reflect on what we can expect not to be said in the coming twelve months as we look to the future of enterprise storage. I’ve taken my top five anti-predictions and discussed them here as a light-hearted look forward to the year ahead.
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January 5, 2016
Hardware Will Fail, Storage Will Work
There’s a great truism in the IT industry that says over time, all hardware will fail and all software will work (eventually). Let’s think about that for a moment.
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November 30, 2015
Secure Cloud Storage: How Secure is Your Cloud Data?
What is the most valuable asset of your company? Is it the office building, the chairs, the furniture, or perhaps the computers and laptops on employees’ desks? Is it the people? For most enterprises, none of these things are at the heart of the business. Instead, the value of a company is in the intellectual property (IP) it owns and that translates directly to information or data.
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November 9, 2015
Private Cloud or Public Cloud – What’s In It For Me?
IT professionals are often struggling with the question of whether they should move their data to the cloud or build a private cloud. This should not be the question. The real question is “what are you trying to accomplish?”
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November 6, 2015
Enterprise Storage Costs, How Do You Pay For Your Storage?
For as long as I can remember, the standard model for buying enterprise-class storage has been based on a capital purchase. The customer specs out their requirements and perhaps runs an RFP (Request for Proposal) if the deal is large enough, or their industry sector requires it. The actual purchase of the hardware may be done as a finance deal and amortized over a number of years for accounting purposes.
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November 2, 2015
Managing Disaster in The Public Cloud
Despite the best intentions of the public cloud infrastructure providers, issues do happen from time to time. Some problems are more significant than others, as we saw with the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) DynamoDB outage (details here). The impact to AWS customers was widespread and although it would be easy to dismiss the affected services as trivial (Netflix, IMDB, Tinder, Buffer), these are still clients running production workloads. Do a quick Google search and it’s easy to find many other similar examples, including this one affecting Microsoft’s Azure Storage Service.
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October 15, 2015
