Find and Select the Right File Storage for your Applications

Philippe Nicolas, Technology Evangelist, Brocade Communications

Many businesses are linked to file storage technologies as many of these new, recent and even existing applications morph now, rely and support file based data. At the same time, the volume of data explodes especially the file data type which now represents by far the larger portion of enterprise data. With the complexity and variety of market solutions, the challenge for IT buyers and storage managers is to choose and adopt the most adapted solutions aligned to their business and IT needs to address their current and future challenges with a special attention to compliance and data retention regulations. This session covers the most common deployed applications, their attributes in term of file storage needs and maps these to file storage solutions available in the industry with technologies details and advantages. Various technologies are presented in this session, among them: Clustered, SAN-based, Distributed, Global and Parallel File System and Storage.

Learning Objectives

• With a top-down approach, this tutorial improves file storage technologies positioning and understanding aligned to applications needs and challenges.
  
• With that survey, technologies segmentation and features matrix, It helps end-users, IT and file storage buyers to select, choose and adopt the right solution.
  
• Democratize some file storage technologies or solutions very often presented too technically and without end-users expectations in mind.

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