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KMIP and Self-Encrypting Drive Support in QuantaStor 5.11
The latest version of QuantaStor introduces support for two important security features: KMIP and hardware encryption via SED media. Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) is an extensible communication protocol for managing security keys that has been developed and standardized by the OASIS standards body. SED media compliant with TCG Opal/Ruby… Listen ⇢
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Automatic Disaster Recovery Site Failover with QuantaStor 5
A good disaster recovery (DR) failover plan is essential for all IT organizations large and small to ensure business continuity in the event of power outages, network outages and natural disasters that can impact the availability of systems. QuantaStor software-defined storage platform makes it easy to implement a DR strategy… Listen ⇢
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Static Route Management with QuantaStor
Static routes provide a way of customizing network traffic flow to bypass the default gateway for communication with a specific network. This is especially useful for routing network traffic through specific VLANs to a network that’s not routable by the default gateway or through VPN tunnels. Each static route has… Listen ⇢
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Block Device Copy with QuantaStor 5
QuantaStor 5.8 introduces a new block storage copy feature that simplifies copying LUNs (FC/iSCSI/NVMeoF) to and from 3rd party SAN systems. This feature also enables copying LUNs into QuantaStor storage systems as new block devices, files, or objects and even enables copying LUNs directly into secure storage at a public… Listen ⇢
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A Guide to QuantaStor’s Advanced Hardware Integration
For storage administrators, software and hardware integration is critical to getting maintenance tasks done in a timely and efficient manner. With traditional proprietary software there has historically been tight integration with its hardware as the platform was designed as a matching solution. Today, organizations are moving or have moved to… Listen ⇢
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How to Deploy QuantaStor for Use with Veeam
Planning for business continuity has become a mission critical function for IT organizations of all sizes given modern SLA and security requirements. To help make business continuity planning and data recovery easier, we have certified the QuantaStor platform with Veeam as part of the Veeam Ready program. QuantaStor supports all… Listen ⇢
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QuantaStor 5.8: Automated Reporting, Zero Touch Maintenance, and Single Sign-On with LDAP
With the release of QuantaStor 5.8, OSNEXUS continues to focus on features that bring the public cloud ease-of-use and ease-of-maintenance to the private cloud for utility grade storage. The v5.8 release includes new automation features around zero-touch maintenance, single-sign-on security features, and new automated reporting capabilities for monitoring storage grids… Listen ⇢
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NAS to Cloud Storage Tiering with Dalet Media Asset Management
MAM platforms require high-performance NAS storage systems for local media asset editing and playback, but as assets age, they need to be archived to free up space on higher cost NAS systems. Traditionally that migration has been to tape but with low-cost cloud options like Azure Blob, one can now… Listen ⇢
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Bridging IBM Cloud Direct to IBM Cloud Object Storage Part Two: Setting up a Highly-Available S3 Reverse Proxy Cluster
For some environments the impact of having the S3 Reverse Proxy offline for any amount of time for maintenance or due to a hardware outage is too high and in these cases we recommend that two systems be deployed and configured as a highly-available S3 proxy cluster configuration. To get… Listen ⇢
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