CTERA and Backblaze Partner to Deliver Top Enterprise Cloud Solution
Last week an announcement was made about CTERA’s partnership with BackBlaze, a leading storage cloud platform, to deliver a fast, simple, cost-effective solution that is ideally suited to replace aging on-premises NAS devices. With the joint solution, our customers can eliminate the many tedious tasks, costs, and hardware traditionally required to manage file servers, backup,…
Zero Trust: Treat Your Remote Workers Like First-Class Citizens
The facts on the ground are unequivocal – remote work is here to stay. Over the past eight months, enterprises have transitioned employees to work from home, as well as shifting work to less affected regions. These changes, which accelerated trends that began almost a decade ago, have irreversibly transformed the way companies work. Shopify,…
Distributed File Systems and Object Storage: Differences and Benefits
What is a Distributed File System? Gartner defines distributed file systems as follows: “Distributed file system storage uses a single parallel file system to cluster multiple storage nodes together, presenting a single namespace and storage pool to provide high bandwidth for multiple hosts in parallel. Data is distributed over multiple nodes in the cluster to handle…
CTERA: Cutting Costs and Enabling Remote Users for Four Global Firms
In today’s uncertain economic times, the need for cost-effective file storage and data management solutions has never been more urgent. The constant surge in enterprise storage volumes (and their associated costs), together with the COVID-accelerated adoption of remote work models, are driving enterprises to transition from legacy hardware-based storage architecture (NAS) to modern, cloud-enabled global…
The Earth is Flat (When WFH)
The confusion and fear of the coronavirus pandemic have triggered some wacky theories. So just to set the record straight: COVID-19 is not caused by the roll-out of 5G networks, and the earth is absolutely, positively not flat. But, in a sense, you could say that COVID-19 is making the world a bit flatter –…