Jason Schmidt Organizations today struggle with providing a consistent collaborative environment across multiple offices. File access can be slow in branch offices, and many solutions do not provide the functionality that today’s software applications require to work the way they were intended. No matter what your industry, your company’s ultimate …

If you’re working in the cloud, you might spend a lot of time waiting to open and download files. It may be frustrating. It may be annoying. But the bottom line is, all that extra time costs you money. Today’s large files and slow download speeds can combine to hurt …

Jason Schmidt, Applied Software Solutions Engineer Panzura, creator of the world’s fastest global file system, was recently acquired by venture capital firm Profile Capital Management. Many people may be wondering what this means for the organization moving forward. Nearly every acquisition brings with it misinformation, some of it targeted at …

No, you don’t have to hide under your desk. They won’t be searching you. Elasticsearch is a new service developed by global data center provider phoenixNAP to search and store massive amounts of metadata (data about data, for instance logs) as objects in the cloud. The service works in conjunction …

If the mere thought of Ransomware scares you, join the club. You lock your doors and windows; you get a guard dog; you don’t walk alone on the street after dark; and still criminals can get to you – through your internet-connected computer. All it takes is one poorly-timed mistake …

S3 Intelligent-Tiering is an Amazon S3 storage class that analyzes an Amazon Web Service user’s stored data and automatically moves it between storage tiers based on usage frequency. It is designed to optimize storage costs for data with irregular or unknown access patterns. S3 Intelligent-Tiering includes two tiers – frequent …