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Data Loss Prevention
Introduction Through this post we will discuss more about data loss, which is the worst nightmare in the IT world, and how to protect ourselves in addition to how Buurst can help you keeping your...
Sar, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
Kibana is a great visualization tool and this article shows how to automate building graphs and dashboards using API with sar logs as a data source. Sar is an old, but good, sysadmin tool that helps...
Designing your storage to meet cost and performance goals
Public cloud platforms like AWS and Azure offer a few different choices for persistent storage. Today I’m going to show you how to leverage a SoftNAS storage appliance with these different storage...
Webinar Recap – The Three Strategies to Increase Performance for Your Applications in AWS
The above is a recording and follows is a full transcript from the webinar, “3 strategies to increase performance for your applications in AWS.” You can download the full slide deck on Slideshare....
Buurst Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Buurst to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies....
New Maintenance Release 4.4.4 Improves Performance with a No Downtime Guarantee
SoftNAS is now Buurst! Our new name represents our commitment to even higher performance and reliability for your cloud applications and storage. The new Maintenance Release 4.4.4 is our latest step...
EBS Backups on AWS
In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to effectively backup and restore your Data on SoftNAS running in AWS. Backups have always been a significant daily activity on every...
Mounting iSCSI inside SoftNAS to copy data using rsync
In this Blog post we are going to discuss how to mount ZFS iSCSI LUNs that have already been formatted with NTFS inside SoftNAS to access data. This use case is mostly applicable in VMware...
Crank Up the Performance for Your Cloud Applications
Cloud Storage Performance Overview Users hate waiting for data from their Cloud application. As we move more applications to the Cloud, CPU, RAM, and fast networks are plentiful. However, storage...
Using a Cloud NAS to improve your VDI experience
Move cloud desktops closer to LOB applications and data. Today, many organizations are supporting cloud-based virtual desktops more than ever before. But users will still resist cloud desktops if...