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DCIG 2016-17 Unified Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide Edition Now Available

DCIG is pleased to announce the availability of its 2016-17 Unified Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide Edition. This Buyer’s Guide, one of six Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide Editions produced by DCIG, reviews and ranks 29 unified utility storage arrays from eight providers. This Buyer’s Guide provides much of the information that organizations need to make an informed decision about unified utility storage arrays that are intended for use in enterprise environments. These arrays are highly available, support both block and file protocols, scale to at least 75TBs and are available for less than $1000/TB.

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Private Enterprise File Sync-and-Share … and then There were Two

It was just a couple of months ago that I became aware that enterprise file sync-and-share capabilities were available for the first time behind corporate file walls with the introduction of Nexsan’s UNITY product. While at the time I could not find another storage system that offered similar capabilities, that all changed this week when HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, announced that it had partnered with CTERA, to offer a competitive product in the private enterprise file sync-and-share space.

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The Introduction of Enterprise File Sync and Share into Mid-to-Enterprise Class Arrays; Interview with Nexsan CeO Robert Fernander, Part 2

Formally or informally, almost all size organizations currently implement file sync and share in some capacity. However, almost all organizations have reservations about its implementation, especially when using public cloud file sync and share solutions such as DropBox. Nexsan’s UNITY™ represents the first storage platform in the mid-to-enterprise market to introduce enterprise file sync and share that operates inside of corporate file walls. In part 2 of my interview series with Nexsan’s CEO, Robert (Bob) Fernander, he explains how this works and what benefits early Nexsan customers are seeing from it.

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A Peek Beneath the Covers of the New Nexsan: Interview with Nexsan’s CEO Robert Fernander, Part 1

What is old is new again and perhaps nowhere does that adage hold more true than with Nexsan. Having once been a standalone company before being acquired by Imation a few years ago, Nexsan is now back as a storage company with Imation operating in the background as a holding company. In this first installment in my interview series with him, Nexsan CEO Robert Fernander provides some details on the “new” Nexsan as well as provides an overview as to what products new and old that organizations can now expect to find as part of its product portfolio.

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Nexsan E-Series Offers Up 3 TB Drives Minus the Performance and Rebuild Worries

Nexsan’s introduction of 3 TB SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) into its E-Series™ storage systems made it the first enterprise storage vendor to offer storage arrays with these size HDDs in them. But the stories behind the headline are the QUALITY of HDDs that Nexsan uses in its storage array and the enhancements that Nexsan made to its storage controllers to support them. These underlying features should instead contribute to users having the same or even higher uptime and performance expectations than they had in the past when using Nexsan storage systems.

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Nexsan Emphasizes Mid-Market Focus with Launch of E-Series Storage Systems

Many midsize companies are evolving operations to ensure business agility while at the same time seeking to better manage their IT related costs. This is leading them to re-prioritize selection criteria to focus on storage systems that help achieve these goals. Responding to these demands, Nexsan this week announced its new E-Series line of storage systems that promise efficient, easy-to-use and enterprise-class solutions in order to deliver a different kind of storage experience for these size organizations.

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One Company’s Change in Storage Management Strategy to Support its Virtual Server Deployment Results in $7 Million in Savings

The topic as to what storage management features organizations really need on a storage array continues to be a hotly debated. In the last decade, we have seen a multitude of features propagate on storage arrays including disk striping, thin provisioning, and storage tiering just to name a few. But deciding which of these features are “nice-to-haves” and which ones are really “needed” in a virtual operating environment (VOE) becomes very difficult to make without a close examination of one’s environment.

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The Three Characteristics of an Operationally Efficient Enterprise Midrange Array

As the economy continues to sputter, all size organizations remain prudent in their storage buying decisions which is leading them to examine enterprise midrange arrays from multiple storage providers. But to make the right choice requires that organizations look beyond obvious points of comparison such as the enterprise midrange array’s price and performance to the features that make it operationally efficient.

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Nexsan DATABeast Proves that There can be Storage Change that Lowers Organizational Risk

Selecting a storage system from someone other than the incumbent historically has been a decision that most IT managers are reluctant to make. A 2008 Forrester Research report highlights this reticence as it found that over 80% of organizations bought all of their storage from only one storage provider. But times change and new storage systems such as the Nexsan DATABeast are demonstrating that IT managers can make a change in their storage system provider.

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Riskless Storage Efficiency: What It Is and Why IT Managers Need to Deliver on It

Over the next few years IT managers face entirely new sets of challenges when it comes to managing storage. These challenges go well beyond just buying enough storage capacity to keep up with data growth. Instead IT managers need to come up with entirely new storage management strategies that enable them to more effectively and efficiently manage storage such that they can meet their application requirements while at the same time keeping their costs and risks in check.

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