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Migrating Legacy Archives

Migration from legacy archives was a major theme at NAB this year. Many of the visitors to the XenData booth have large legacy LTO tape archives that they want to convert to the Cloud or to modern on-premises LTO-8 archives. In many cases, there is an urgency to convert, driven by escalating maintenance costs for… Read more

XenData: When a Windows Volume Suddenly gets Hybrid Towards an Azure Storage Account

Introduction Today I took the XenData Cloud File Gateway out for a spin… Why? This little piece of software allows a windows volume to be extended by an Azure Storage Account. And from a technical level, we are talking about blob storage here. So you can leverage hot & cold storage, and even archive storage in the… Read more
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Demystifying the Cost of Azure Blob Storage

The Microsoft Azure cloud platform offers a vast array of services including cloud storage. Within Azure storage, there are multiple offerings but the most economical is blob object storage. The very large and growing Azure service offerings make for a complicated charging model. This posting attempts to explain the pricing model for Azure blob storage.… Read more
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Comparing Cloud Storage and LTO for Creative Video

  We launched our Cloud File Gateway at NAB in Las Vegas last week and discussed its place in the storage hierarchy with many of the visitors to our booth. We focused on the merits of cloud storage versus a more conventional local LTO library for archived video content. From my NAB discussions, it was…

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