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7 May 2020

Technology and the Impact of Coronavirus

As I write to you from my basement in the second month of a global pandemic, I definitely have spent a lot of time thinking about the things that I am most thankful for – my family, my friends, and my co-workers to name a few. As a society, I am sure there are going to be many changes in our everyday lives that we will face as the world starts to come out of quarantine.

28 April 2020

DobiMigrate 5.8 Unveiled

Enhanced chain-of-custody capabilities in DobiMigrate 5.8 help customers with complex eDiscovery scenarios and stricter data protection directives.

11 March 2020

A Deeper Look into Isilon Permissions

As mentioned in part one of this blog series, Dell EMC Isilon uses a Unified Permission Model, which means they store the permissions for all their protocols in the same place. That place is a user token that’s generated when the user initially connects to the Isilon. Isilon will go out to all authentication providers […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.