Do You Control Your Data?

by | Jul 26, 2018 | Uncategorized

Managing data across heterogeneous storage resources is complex, risky, and expensive. When using these resources, you have no direct access to files, because your user access is a physical gateway or software appliance. It is disruptive to transfer your information...

How to Manage Your Orphaned Data

by | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized

With exception of structured data, many companies are unaware of which files are present within many Windows shares or NFS exports.  Over time, data have moved from department to department, project to project. It’s been created, unused, and left orphaned by...

StorageX is fast (baseline copy)

by | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized

In a previous article, I stated that StorageX is multi-threaded. I also spent quite a bit of time discussing why I consider this fact to be (mostly) irrelevant to the administrator who is using StorageX to perform his file system migrations. What the user of StorageX...

The Future of NAS is Object

by | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized

If you’ve been around the computer industry long enough, you’ve witnessed major shifts in technology. One such shift took place in 1992, when NetApp, Inc. was founded.  NetApp pioneered a new enterprise storage technology called Network Attached Storage...