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Misplacing Digital Transformation Priorities

By cfheoh | January 20, 2020 - 2:29 pm |January 20, 2020 Backup, Big Data, Business Continuity, BYOD, CIFS, Citrix, Cloud, Data, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Corruption, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Dropbox, Filesystems, FreeNAS, Katana Logic, Microsoft, NAS, NetApp, NFS, Object Storage, QNAP, Reliability, SMB
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[ Note: This article was published on LinkedIn on Jan 20th 2020. Here is the link to the original article ]

Digital Transformation is again a big word for 2020. As more and more organizations becoming digitalized, the opportunity to communicate, interact and collaborate has become easier, faster, more convenient than ever.

File Sharing forever

Working in projects, file sharing is a fundamental activity that underpins communication and collaboration. Network drives via NAS (network attached storage) for file sharing are common within the confines of the company network. The perimeter of the company’s network is further extended via VPN (virtual private network) access, allowing branch offices and remote individuals to access the files from the central NAS server. It is a workable solution albeit poor network performance in delivery, challenges of siloed data management and difficult scalability.

The phenomenon of Dropbox

When Dropbox arrived circa 2008-2009, it took the industry by storm. They practically invented the term BYOD (bring your own device) and capture the imagination of the file sharing market. Gartner recognized this and coined EFSS (enterprise file sync and share) to consolidate the burgeoning file sharing market. Pretenders and challengers flooded the market, and after the shakedown, Box.net, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and of course, Dropbox, are some of the market leaders today.

A recent report by Markets & Markets listed these companies as players in the EFSS market.

EFSS Players by Markets & Markets October 2019

As the wheels of Digital Transformation turn, EFSS is changing as well. Gartner EFSS is now the CCP (content collaboration platform), releasing their Gartner Content Collaboration Platforms MarketPeer Insights report in April 2019. Continue reading →

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Tagged 2 factor authentication, Box, BYOD, Content Collaboration, cyberresilience, cybersecurity, Dropbox, Easishare, Enterprise File Sync & Share, Google Drive, Inspire-Tech, Microsoft OneDrive, Multi factor authentication, people, process, ransomware, technology

Sleepless in Malaysia with Object Storage

By cfheoh | January 22, 2019 - 1:42 pm |January 22, 2019 Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Analytics, API, Big Data, Cloud, Cloudian, Clusters, Data Management, Deep Learning, DellEMC, Dropbox, Filesystems, Google, Hadoop, Hadoop Clusters, HDS, IDC, IoT, iSCSI, Linux, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Minio, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, OpenIO, Redhat, Security, swiftstack
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Object Storage? What’s that?

For the past couple of months, I have been speaking with a few parties in Malaysia about object storage technology. And I was fairly surprised with the responses.

The 2 reports

For a start, I did not set out to talk about object storage. It kind of fell onto my lap. 2 recent Hitachi Vantara reports revealed that countries like Australia, Hong Kong and even South East Asian countries were behind in their understanding of what object storage was, and the benefits it brought to the new generation of web scale and enterprise applications.

In the first report, an IDC survey sponsored by Hitachi Vantara, mentioned that 41% of the enterprises in Australia are not aware of object storage technology. In a similar survey, this one pointing towards Hong Kong and China, the percentages were 38% and 35% respectively. I would presume that the percentages for countries in South East Asia would not fall too far from the apple tree.

How is Malaysia doing?

However, I worry that the percentage number could be far more dire in Malaysia. In the past 2 months, responses from several conversations painted a darker hue about object storage technology with the companies in Malaysia. These included a reasonable sized hosting company, a well-established systems integrator, a software development company, several storage practitioners in Openstack and a DellEMC’s regional consultant for unstructured data. The collective conclusion was object storage technology was relatively unknown (probably similar to the percentages to the IDC/Hitachi Vantara reports), but it appeared to be shunned at this juncture. In web scale applications, Redhat Ceph block and files appeared popular in contrast to Openstack Swift. In enterprise applications, it was a toss of iSCSI and NFS.

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