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Cloud storage management and standards

• Who needs a multi-cloud environment and how best to deploy one

  Multi-cloud deployments let IT pick and choose among services from a variety of cloud providers to meet the storage and workload requirements of specific business units. Continue Reading

• Three multi-cloud deployment tactics that work

  Use standardization, as well as a centralized management tool and independent monitoring tool, to deploy a multi-cloud environment that's easy and efficient to manage. Continue Reading

• How to use REST APIs in Python

  Using REST APIs with Python can offer storage administrators increased flexibility in their management tasks, but they need some knowledge of how to code. Continue Reading

• Navigating cloud-based data storage requires some caution

  Cloud services are economical and easy to use -- if you know the ropes. Approach cloud computing issues with caution; you just might run into familiar on-premises storage problems. Continue Reading

• Showback the value of your data storage expertise

  To demonstrate value, IT must provide an easy-to-understand cost model to its business leaders. This has fostered IT showback projects. Yet showback isn't easy to achieve. Continue Reading

• Understand enterprise file sync-and-share deployment models

  Terri McClure looks at how "shadow EFSS" has made it easy for sensitive data to fall into the wrong hands and hard for companies to protect it.Continue Reading

• What are the best ways to manage multiple cloud providers?

  While using a single cloud provider can leave your data center vulnerable, a multi-cloud plan may require a more complex management strategy.Continue Reading

• The case for cloud storage: Cloud considerations and strategies

  Before deploying your cloud storage project, learn about cloud storage use cases, how to do a cloud cost analysis and keeping data safe in the cloud.Continue Reading

• How to ensure a high-availability cloud

  High availability and redundancy have always been an important part of local storage, but they're just as important in cloud storage. At first glance, it might seem easy to dismiss these aspects of cloud architecture as beyond your control because ...Continue Reading

• Working with OpenStack storage: Tips on Cinder, Swift and the cloud

  This guide explores the block, object and cloud storage offerings from OpenStack, one of the most sought-after open source storage platforms.Continue Reading

• Cloud storage tools manage data stored in the ether

  As much as we might want to assume an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude about the data we ship to cloud storage services, the truth is that it needs nearly as much attention as data stored onsite. Some services offer basic tools to manage ...Continue Reading

• Cloud storage investment tips

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• How OpenStack Storage fits in the larger open source OpenStack picture

  IDC analyst Ashish Nadkarni explains how OpenStack Storage's Swift and Cinder fit into the larger open source OpenStack cloud computing platform.Continue Reading

• Can storage hypervisors bring high availability to the cloud?

  Learn how the advanced functionality of a storage hypervisor provides a cloud infrastructure with high availability.Continue Reading

• NTP Software taps into cloud for secure file management

  NTP Software branches into secure file management, but says its Universal File Access technology isn't a sync-and-share service.Continue Reading