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25 February 2020

Character Encoding

During my time at Datadobi, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of customers with some of the most complex filesystem deployments in the world. With many of these environments approaching petabyte scale, the migration discussions tied to these systems are equally complex, especially when migrating across different storage platforms and different […]
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27 December 2019

Isilon and Permissions

At Datadobi, we do migrations between many different storage vendors and platforms. That experience has taught us that each network-attached storage (NAS) device can (and does) handle permissions differently. When migrating between two different NAS devices, it is good to understand how the different platforms manage access and authentication. After your migration is over, your […]
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11 November 2019

POSIX ACLs

At Datadobi, we are constantly enhancing our software to meet any and all needs of our customers. Over the years we have regularly added features to accommodate a number of unique migration needs; this continues to this day as we add support for the tricky migrations involving NFS (Network File System) content secured via POSIX […]
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27 September 2019

How to Protect Your Unstructured Data (Without the Hassle)

Business leaders today know that their company’s most valuable asset is data. With 41% of organizations in a global survey reporting at least one data disruption in the past 12 months, protecting that data from corruption or loss – whether malicious or accidental – has never been more important.
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22 August 2019

6 Keys to a Successful Dell EMC Isilon Migration

You’ve purchased Dell EMC Isilon NAS (network-attached storage) and you’re ready to move your SMB (Server Message Block) or NFS (Network File System) file and object data from your old platform to the new one. So, what’s the best way to proceed? A multivendor, shared access, multiprotocol NAS migration can be challenging, so it is […]
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26 June 2019

DobiMigrate Named Nutanix Ready

Datadobi and Nutanix have completed testing of the DobiMigrate software stack in the Nutanix labs. We are pleased to announce that DobiMigrate has been validated as “Nutanix Ready” after meeting all the requirements of the program.
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14 June 2019

*New* Filesystem Analytics Eliminates Guesswork

The latest release of the DobiMiner Software Suite is here, and it comes with significant enhancements. One of the most important new features of Release 5.6 is filesystem analytics, which greatly improves visibility into the characteristics of an unstructured dataset.
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28 February 2019

Filesystem Analytics and Discovery

ANALYTICS The Simplicity Illusion Have you ever been put into a position of having to solve a file migration problem without the faintest clue on where to begin? Often this is the case when storage admins or IT staff are thrust into being asked to solve seemingly simple data migrations only to find out it’s […]
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1 August 2018

Heterogeneous and Vendor Independent NAS Replication. Is it Magic?

At a recent storage conference, an attendee approached our booth asking about Datadobi’s NAS replication solution, DobiReplicate. As we discussed its ability to replicate data between different vendor platforms, they immediately responded with “Well – heterogeneous– that’s the magic word, isn’t it?”. And I began to wonder, is it truly a magic word? It’s not exactly […]
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1 June 2018

Using Hash Digests to Validate Data Copies

Whenever data is migrated or replicated between two systems, one of the most important activities to perform is validating the copy operation results.  It is an unfortunate reality that data gets corrupted either in transit, due to a bad disk write at the destination, or for other reasons.  No matter where the source of the […]
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