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Do IOPS really matter?
From the beginning of the Storage era, almost all storage vendors challenged each other to achieve the highest number of IOPS possible. There are a lot of...
Data Loss Prevention
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...
Sar, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
Sar, Elasticsearch, and Kibana... Kibana is a great visualization tool and this article shows how to automate building graphs and dashboards using API with...
Designing your storage to meet cost and performance goals
Scalability, virtualization, efficiency, and reliability are major Cloud Platform design goals of a cloud computing platform. Public cloud platforms like AWS...
The Three Strategies to Increase Performance for Your Applications in AWS
“3 strategies to increase performance for your applications in AWS.” You can download the full slide deck on Slideshare. AWS Application Performance Many...
Buurst Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to SoftNAS to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application...
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...
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. AWS EBS Backups have always...
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...
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...
Using a Cloud NAS to improve your VDI experience
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure performance Move cloud desktops closer to LOB applications and data. Today, many organizations are...
That’s not the throughput I was expecting
"That’s not the throughput I was expecting." I have heard that multiple times throughout my career, more so now that workloads are being transitioned into...
Azure Managed Disks (Don’t get mixed up)
Azure Managed Disks are a great choice for storage in the Azure cloud. But there are a few things to understand when using Azure premium disk. Azure premium...
10 Ways Enterprise Selling is changing for ISV’s – Evolving from direct, to channel, to the cloud era
As a student of our industry I have seen enterprise software selling evolve. IBM created this industry and became the gold standard for enterprise direct...
5 Tips for Maximizing Your Cloud Data
5 tips that every Enterprise technologist and business decision-maker should think about when they are managing and migrating data to the cloud. What are you...
The I’s have it! – Why Buurst has embedded U’s
I have been involved with branded or named companies in every decade since the 1980’s and can tell you that naming has become exponentially more difficult...