Cloud storage

Three reasons to consider a multi-cloud storage strategy

Storing data in multiple clouds is a fairly new strategy, but it's useful for companies that want to control cloud costs, protect privacy and ensure their data is always available. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

CEO discusses changing Nasuni storage customer base

Nasuni's customer base has expanded to large enterprises, and most are right to be concerned about cloud storage performance, says CEO Andres Rodriguez. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Features disaster recovery-as-a-service providers must offer

A cost-effective disaster recovery as a service lets organizations of all sizes implement a dependable disaster recovery plan. Disaster recovery-as-a-service providers replicate or back up customer data to cloud data centers and then -- should disaster strike -- host and run applications remotely. There's a lot of room for disaster recovery-as-a-service providers to develop features specific to their DRaaS products, which can make sorting through those offerings daunting. Learn about the four key capabilities to look for when comparing DRaaS vendors to ensure the one you choose can handle the full range of potential disasters.

Data that goes into cold storage is often kept for compliance and, increasingly, for big data analysis. Such data is infrequently or never accessed. Typically cheaper and lower performing than primary or secondary storage, cold storage systems are designed for storing such data. Enterprises may need to make this data warm or hot at a moment's notice, though, complicating cold storage design and increasing costs. Initially based on automated tape libraries and optical jukeboxes, cold storage systems have evolved to encompass Linear Tape File System and object storage as the amount of unstructured data has grown in recent years. Software for managing unstructured data has changed the cold data landscape as well.

Employees often access and synchronize corporate data from a variety of consumer-grade sync-and-share services, putting the organization at risk. Enterprise-grade file sync-and-share -- available via the cloud, on premises or in hybrid modes -- includes enhancements to ensure security and compliance. Such features vary among vendors, but there are certain ones you should always look for to maintain data integrity and security.

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Demand for cold data storage heats up

The exponential rise in unstructured data is one of many reasons for the upsurge in demand for cost-effective cold storage products, services and media. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Cloud storage adoption decisions weigh capacity and cost

Acquiring storage capacity -- particularly for backup, archiving, DR and collaborative purposes -- dominates as the main reason for storage cloud adoption trends in the enterprise. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Navigating cloud-based data storage requires some caution

Cloud services are economical and easy to use -- if you know the ropes. Approach cloud computing issues with caution; you just might run into familiar on-premises storage problems. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Navigating cloud-based data storage requires some caution

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Cloud storage adoption decisions weigh capacity and cost

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SwiftStack objects to object storage label

SwiftStack’s leadership team appreciated being selected a visionary in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. The vendor even put out a press release ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Elastifile scores OEM deal with Dell EMC

Cloud NAS vendor Elastifile has struck an OEM deal with Dell EMC, one of the startup’s first investors. Dell EMC will integrate Elastifile Cloud File System and CloudConnect cloud transfer and ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

IBM Cloud Object Storage tweaked for on-prem, small footprints

With the latest upgrades to its object storage platform, IBM recognizes that not everyone who uses object storage does so in the public cloud.  They don’t all start with hundreds of terabytes of ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Quest data protection management adds cloud portal

Quest Software, independent again after its spinoff from Dell EMC nearly a year ago, is building out its data protection portfolio with a new cloud-based management console. The Quest Data ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Can Commvault HyperScale cure sales slide?

Following six straight quarters of making or beating expectations, Commvault stumbled last quarter when it missed its targets for revenue and income. The backup and data management company today ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Actifio Sky adds intelligent search across clouds

Actifio's Sky goes beyond copy data management. It searches and manages data across clouds and on-premises storage with new analytics and a global catalog. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Secondary data storage: A massively scalable transformation

Capitalize on flash with interactive, online secondary data storage architectures that make a lot more data available for business while maximizing flash investment. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

SoftNAS Cloud architecture gets facelift, new features

SoftNAS Cloud architecture splits into distinct products for primary NAS, secondary storage and replication across clouds, and targets multicloud and hybrid cloud implementations. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Entry-level Dell EMC SC Series adds data features

Dell EMC's SCv3000 launch includes automated hybrid tiering, data compression and replication with federated clusters. Dell EMC announced a money-back efficiency guarantee. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

How can I guarantee the best Ceph performance?

Ceph object storage performance is largely based on network speed, but journal disks and the right file system for object storage devices also play a role. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding

Cloud-based file service provider Nasuni last week closed on $38 million in funding to boost its expansion plans in research and development and its channel and go-to-market efforts. The Goldman ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise

Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Tintri Enterprise Cloud Series federates 64 flash nodes

Flash vendor Tintri in July expanded storage clustering to enable customers to build a massively scalable private enterprise cloud. On Tuesday, the Tintri enterprise cloud strategy added another ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Elastifile grabs $16M to stretch sales staff

Startup Elastifile, which sells a distributed file system that spans flash and cloud storage tiers, picked up $16 million in funding today. The startup also gained a new strategic investor in ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Druva pulls in $80 million for data management software

Druva today said it has raised another $80 million in funding, bringing its total investments into the range of $200 million for the fast-growing data management software vendors. The Sunnyvale, ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

XenData CX-10 supports hybrid cloud storage for large files

A new hybrid cloud storage appliance, due to ship in September, will store 10 TB locally and offload infrequently accessed files to Microsoft Azure Blob storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Tintri Cloud Connector writes VM backups to AWS, IBM

Tintri Enterprise Cloud enhances VMstore snapshots to cloud and expands predictive analytics for compute and storage. Cloud Connector treats the cloud as a tertiary repository. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Private cloud implementation guide

Wondering how to pull off a private cloud deployment? Plan ahead, design for the future and make sure you have built up the right knowledge base. Continue Reading

Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 pricing, performance

Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

Learn what to look for in a hybrid cloud platform so you can take advantage of the scalability, agility and cost benefits it has to offer primary storage. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne

Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

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Ctera Networks' enterprise file-sharing services gain intelligent cache

The latest version of Ctera's file-sharing software takes the sync out of sync-and-share with intelligent caching built into Enterprise File Services Platform 6. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Everything you need to know about OpenStack modules

OpenStack continues to evolve in an effort to compete with AWS. The modules that are available now make OpenStack a viable enterprise option. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage is an enterprise public cloud storage platform that can house large unstructured data sets. Continue Reading

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• Margaret Jones, Executive Editor
• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

Scality launches Zenko for multi-cloud management

Scality's new open source initiative is a multi-cloud management vision to help customers match specific workloads to the best cloud service. Zenko is based on Scality S3 Server. Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Should you use a private cloud chargeback model?

The idea of chargebacks is to help organizations use private cloud resources efficiently by making departments pay for what they use, but the practice can backfire. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

CEO Harr predicts Panzura storage shift to software deployments

Panzura CEO Patrick Harr predicts more customers will shift from using the company's physical appliances to VM-based software deployments in the cloud by year's end. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

Enterprises look for the best deal from the vendor with the best reputation when turning to the cloud to tame growing data volumes for archiving, backup and more. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity

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What private cloud implementation barriers should I plan for?

There are many factors to consider when building a private cloud, so planning is crucial. Policy changes and hardware choices are just some challenges that may arise. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

How is private cloud support divided between IT and providers?

When companies choose a private cloud storage provider, it's important that they understand what the internal IT department is responsible for, as opposed to what the provider will support. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

What are the benefits of private cloud over popular alternatives?

Don't overlook the advantages of private cloud when choosing a cloud storage implementation. Security, cost and ease of transition make it a viable option. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

GlusterFS vs. Ceph: Weighing the open source combatants

When considering open source storage software, GlusterFS and Ceph share that designation and little else. Knowing how each option works can help in the selection process. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

What to expect in OpenStack releases Pike and Queens

OpenStack Pike, Queens and Rocky will include much-needed features and updates that will simplify user interfaces and improve the function of existing APIs. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Price of cloud storage may be fuzzy

Cloud storage services offer convenience and can cut IT spending, but not in every case. Make sure to do the math before you commit to putting your critical data in the cloud. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

Price of cloud storage may be fuzzy

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Four private cloud design pointers to ensure success

To design a successful private cloud, lay the groundwork: Plan beyond the five-year mark, determine who will manage images and make it highly available. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Private cloud technology presents promising prospects

The benefits of a private cloud implementation are becoming increasingly obvious as costs continue to decline and interoperability with its public relatives continues to improve. Continue Reading

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• Jim O'Reilly

Dell EMC cloud storage strategy needs to cut through fog

The vendor's multicloud strategy for storage was a hot topic during Dell EMC World 2017, headlined by expanded Virtustream, Elastic Cloud Storage and Azure offerings. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Helpful steps toward an easy private cloud implementation

There are many aspects of an overall private cloud infrastructure that affect your organization's cloud storage plans, and knowing what to look for is vital. Continue Reading

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• Sander van Vugt

Use the cloud to enhance the functions of primary storage

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Red Hat Gluster Storage integrated with OpenShift on AWS

Red Hat integrated Gluster storage with the OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services to provide consistent storage for on-premises and cloud application deployments. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Nutanix enterprise cloud strategy envelopes HPE, Cisco blades

Nutanix took two steps today to paint itself as more of an enterprise cloud player. First, it added Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant rackmount servers and Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers to its ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Oracle cloud storage embraces ZFS Storage Appliance

New Oracle operating system update enables ZFS Storage Appliance to transfer file- and block-based data to Oracle Storage Cloud without an external cloud gateway. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ctera Networks prepares for rise of multicloud adoption

Ctera forges partnerships with HPE and IBM to expand its data center reach; CEO says enterprise customers will focus on security and multicloud strategies in 2017. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Infrastructure provisioning made easier with hybrid cloud storage

Storage provisioning delays slow down IT initiatives and negatively impact both revenue and the bottom line, which make hybrid clouds a realistic and attractive option. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Overcome problems with public cloud storage providers

Security and compliance concerns are chief obstacles to public cloud storage adoption, as IT managers are hesitant to have their critical data reside outside the data center. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Byrne, Taneja Group

Infrastructure provisioning made easier with hybrid cloud storage

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Overcome problems with public cloud storage providers

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Tintri storage strategy shoots straight at public cloud

Tintri's storage is evolving to help customers utilize cloud-based services. Tintri added synchronous replication to its VM-aware VMstore arrays and plans to integrate AWS support. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Businesses use enterprise file sync-and-share market to collaborate

Enterprise file sync and share solves numerous business problems by offering organizations a way to provide more secure document sharing and collaboration. Continue Reading

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• James Alan Miller, Senior Executive Editor

Businesses use enterprise file sync-and-share market to collaborate

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Panzura controller, OS updates extend cloud options

The new Panzura controller has a bigger cache and an improved operating system with enterprise features. Hybrid Cloud Controller model also offers new enterprise support options. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

How to navigate the public cloud service provider selection process

Learn how to determine if your organization could benefit from public cloud storage and how to select the public cloud provider that will best meet your needs. Continue Reading

A look at the services the leading public cloud vendors provide

Examine the leading public cloud service providers and the features each offers, including backup and recovery, archival, hybrid cloud storage and cloud analytics. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Cloud storage for enterprise use should spike in 2017

Storage CTOs predict enterprise cloud adoption will increase in 2017, with a boost from new development and management technologies to assist with planning and deployment. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Showback the value of your data storage expertise

To demonstrate value, IT must provide an easy-to-understand cost model to its business leaders. This has fostered IT showback projects. Yet showback isn't easy to achieve. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

How to build a private storage cloud

Building internal cloud storage must account for elasticity, choosing the right platform, allowing for workflow, and stack deployments and public cloud integration. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

Showback the value of your data storage expertise

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How to build a private storage cloud

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Start your hybrid cloud implementation off on the right foot

Hybrid cloud storage has garnered a lot of interest because it offers cost savings and scalability. But there are some key concerns to think about before you dive in. Continue Reading

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• Erin Sullivan, Senior Site Editor

Four criteria for evaluating public cloud storage providers

Prior to selecting a public cloud service provider, it's essential that you understand what each vendor offers and how their services can best meet your organization's needs. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Pascucci

Hyper-convergence meets private cloud platform requirements

Infrastructure choice and integration are fundamental to capitalizing on all that a private cloud environment has to offer your organization. Continue Reading

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• Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne

Hedvig storage update offers multicloud capabilities

Hedvig outlined its vision for a Universal Data Plane spanning public and private clouds, as it announced an updated version of its software-defined storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

With on-premises storage, storage administrators must adapt or perish

Storage admins show increased interest in and adoption of on-premises storage technologies such as software-defined storage and hybrid clouds. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Get the most from cloud-based storage services

Enterprise data storage managers are in position to help their companies get more from cloud storage services. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most

Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ... Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud

Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ... Continue Reading

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• Sonia Lelii, TechTarget

Base enterprise hybrid cloud evaluation on security, cost

Explosive data growth has organizations looking at hybrid cloud storage to meet their capacity needs. But cloud costs and security issues need to be addressed. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

IT managers: Concerns spurring hybrid cloud adoption

According to a recent study conducted by EMC, the top concerns of IT managers today could be contributing to an uptick in hybrid cloud deployments. Continue Reading

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• Sarah Wilson, Associate Site Editor

It's time to redefine the enterprise file sync-and-share market

Today's enterprise file sync-and-share products do so much more than synchronizing data that it might be time to re-think the moniker. Continue Reading

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• Terri McClure

What criteria are most important when evaluating cloud storage costs?

With cloud storage pricing models varying so much, it makes sense to compare summaries of these criteria to be sure you make the right choice. Continue Reading

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• Andrew Reichman, Reichman IT

The case for cloud storage: Cloud considerations and strategies

Before deploying your cloud storage project, learn about cloud storage use cases, how to do a cloud cost analysis and keeping data safe in the cloud. Continue Reading

Are more than five nines of availability really possible?

When cloud durability is added to the mix, cloud providers are able to tout a high number of nines of availability. Continue Reading

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• Greg Schulz, The Server and StorageIO Group

Is the cost of cloud storage really cheaper than traditional storage?

Cloud storage can be less expensive from a cost-per-gigabyte perspective, but it's important not to lose sight of other benefits as a value proposition. Continue Reading

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• Greg Schulz, The Server and StorageIO Group

What are some cloud migration challenges or limitations?

It's not uncommon to run into challenges when migrating data to the cloud. Here are some roadblocks to keep an eye out for. Continue Reading

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• Greg Schulz, The Server and StorageIO Group

Redundant cloud storage ensures high availability

Redundant cloud storage gateways and redundant WAN links help companies avoid protection gaps that could result in outages or data loss. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Switching cloud storage service providers comes at a cost

Analyst George Crump explains the best way to deal with the upfront costs and security issues that come with switching cloud storage providers. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Working with OpenStack storage: Tips on Cinder, Swift and the cloud

This guide explores the block, object and cloud storage offerings from OpenStack, one of the most sought-after open source storage platforms. Continue Reading

Cloud survey uncovers seven storage services trends

Latest TechTarget cloud survey finds cloud backup, cloud file sync and share, disaster recovery and archiving are most popular uses of cloud storage. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

What to consider when storing data in the cloud

Storage administrators who want to keep data in the cloud need to consider collaboration regulations, cost factors and performance requirements. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

Security top concern in online file sharing and collaboration

As the online file-sharing and collaboration market grows, so does the opportunity for users and hackers to damage the data and reputation of firms. Continue Reading

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• Terri McClure

Data durability guarantees shouldn't be big concern with cloud storage

Data durability guarantees of cloud storage providers shouldn't be a big point of concern for customers; they're too tough to measure and enforce. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion

IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Survey finds cloud storage implementation growing but cautious

Cloud storage implementation by users ranges from backup and DR to tiering. We reveal the most-used cloud storage applications and access methods. Continue Reading

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• Rich Castagna

How to access cloud storage: Transfer, retrieval not so simple

Public cloud data access is straightforward, but data transfer to another provider or in-house could leave users on their own, analyst warns. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ten questions to help compare cloud storage services

Cloud storage expert Arun Taneja suggests 10 questions to help you successfully compare cloud storage services. Continue Reading

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• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Top tips for doing a cloud storage cost analysis

Arun Taneja breaks the cloud storage cost analysis process into three categories: monthly storage pricing, transaction charges and cost of bandwidth. Continue Reading

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• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Various cloud gateway options and use cases

Arun Taneja explains why a cloud gateway is essential for cloud storage, and drills into the various types of cloud gateways on the market today. Continue Reading

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• Arun Taneja, Taneja Group

Cloud data storage: New technologies make cloud storage more appealing

Discover the benefits and drawbacks of cloud data storage, get details on players in the private storage cloud space and learn more about cloud storage services. Continue Reading

SaaS shopping list for SMBs

Storage-as-a-service (SaaS) companies have changed how they operate. Learn what to look for when shopping for an online data backup provider with this product features checklist. Continue Reading

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• Ellen O'Brien, Executive Editor