Category: Object Storage

If you’ve only considered object storage at for secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, it might be time to re-examine the landscape of data management, as you may be overpaying for on-premises performance-driven storage. While it’s true that early object storage adoption had historically been associated with backing up large volumes of secondary unstructured…

Ensuring availability, security, durability and recoverability is critical to any data-driven business. At the same time, the need for an affordable and effective approach to managing on-premises and public cloud data has never been greater. If managing explosive data growth has become increasingly complex due to on-premises, hybrid or multi-clouds environments,  private cloud, new object…

From small business to the enterprise, object storage is disrupting the fundamental strategy for how modern IT departments handle the explosion of unstructured data, including large data sets, multimedia files, backup and log files, or data archives. We’ve been posting about object storage technology benefits, including limitless scalability, geo-distribution or seamless hybrid cloud integration. It’s…

As data volumes start to outpace operating budgets and the headcount needed to manage them. Instead of over-provisioning storage due to lack of visibility into how their organization uses data, storage managers are turning to new storage technologies for cost benefits without sacrificing features. Today’s forward-thinking IT departments are turning to object storage as a…

If you’ve weighed the cost-reduction benefits of network storage vs. cloud storage, you’ve probably discovered that the right solution for your data center is a mix of on-premises and public cloud services. The truth is, more often than not, hybrid cloud strategy between the two provides the greatest platform flexibility and economics. And while IT…