Latest Lightboard Video: The Benefits of a Cloud-Native File Architecture in a Managed Service Model

Today’s world is multi-cloud, as IT uses a range of cloud service providers to address varying compliance, cost, feature and performance requirements. This results in a highly complex environment for IT to provision, manage and monitor. File storage environments are becoming especially cumbersome, as a growing number of smaller files are distributed across a larger number of locations globally.…

New Lightboard Video: Elastifile: A Cloud-Native Approach to Managed File Storage Services

Many enterprises are turning to the public cloud to improve the agility, the ease of use and management, and the cost efficiency of their file storage services. However, not all clouds and service experiences were created equal. Dr. Allon Cohen, Vice President of Cloud Solutions and Business Development for Elastifile, joined George Crump, Lead Analyst for Storage Switzerland, to discuss…

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Creating a Data Center Compatible Cloud - Elastifile Briefing Note

Organizations spend months creating a “cloud strategy,” and then spend many more months attempting to execute that strategy, sometimes to successful completion but many times the project is abandoned. There are a multitude of problems when transitioning applications to the cloud. There is the problem of moving data to the cloud, transforming the application to run in the cloud and the problem of…

Latest @georgeacrump Note: Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem - Elastifile

Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance and availability requirements of the application is more of an art than a science. IT needs a cost-effective migration path that leverages legacy…

New @georgeacrump Note: Solving Today’s Problems With A Cloud Future - Elastifile #FMS2017

The term “cloud first” comes up often in IT circles these days. It’s a concept that calls for each new application an organization is bringing online, IT should consider the “cloud first” as a place to host that application. It sounds like a good idea, but most organizations simply are not ready for that type of commitment to the cloud. Most have “today” problems to solve, often related to…

New @georgeacrump Blog: What is the Hybrid Cloud? and how to make it work?

The cloud moniker is used to describe virtually everything in IT today. We call that cloud washing and “hybrid cloud” is suffering the same fate. A cloud is typically a scale-out cluster of commodity servers that deliver a service (compute, storage or both) where workloads or data can transparently move between or across nodes. The idea behind a hybrid cloud is that an organization’s workloads…

New @georgeacrump Blog: Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric

In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where data moves to the right location at the right time. IT is struggling to find a storage solution that can service legacy applications, be the foundation for…