How to Best Use Data, or Where It’s Stored?
Which Question’s More Important to Your Business: How to Best Use Data, or Where It’s Stored? The explosion in data – driven by new technologies like AI, ML and VR, and by a growing appreciation of the value of data in general – is not the result of the public’s swelling affection for storage technology. … Read More
How Many 9s of Protection Do You Really Need?
How critical is your data? How much can you afford to lose? Phrased that way, the answer is always “none.” But if you talk to your CFO you may discover that the question is, how much data can you afford to protect? In any discussion of technology reliability, you’re going to hear a lot … Read More
Location, Location, Location
Like in the real estate market, the value of data is determined in large part by location. You want to store data as close to its users as possible. That may be on-premises, if you have a centralized organization, or in your branch offices, retail outlets, factories or labs. But if your applications run in … Read More
Cloudian Introducing Multi-Cloud Storage Management with HyperStore 7
Cloudian HyperStore 7: Evolving towards the multi-cloud Not long ago, organizations viewed the cloud as a homogeneous destination, with initiatives to rapidly migrate applications and data. Today these same IT managers are taking a more nuanced view as they seek to strike a balance with the ideal mix of cloud and on-prem processes. The cloud itself ... Read MoreThe World is Being Changed by Camera Data & Object Storage
Impactful Imaging: How the World is Being Changed by Camera Data and Object Storage Last month, Cloudian and Axis, the market leader in network video, announced a partnership that will allow the data captured by Axis’ network cameras to be saved directly to Cloudian’s HyperStore via the internet for economical archiving. That means that even … Read More
How One Company Saved £1.3M by Moving to SymStor and Cloudian (or One Man’s Buying Journey to the Dark Side and Back)
We’ve all been there: sitting across from an incumbent vendor’s third account manager this year—the one whose designer watch is noticeably larger than his face—watching a "seamless" PowerPoint deck that doesn’t actually address a single one of our requirements. It’s the classic IT dilemma: do you stick with the devil you know, or risk the ... Read MoreNew Enterprise File Solution for Object Storage from Cloudian
For a species that’s evolved so effectively over the millennia, we humans sure seem to have a hard time with change. Even the most flexible among us struggle with simple and even expected changes, like daylight savings time or the need to write a different year on our checks each January. In the high technology … Read More
Gartner Hype Cycle Recommendations for Object Storage
Gartner’s Storage Hype Cycle is out, and Storage Newsletter posted the piece here. The Gartner Hype Cycle is an industry overview that looks at the maturity of various storage types. In the Storage Newsletter posting, Gartner’s comments specific to object storage are interesting: they recommend that customers seek out the attributes that Cloudian offers. Gartner: “Customers should … Read More
