Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors have gotten into a bad habit of claiming that once an organization implements the HCI solution, they no longer have to worry about backup. While there are components of HCI, (snapshots and replication), that do help in the data protection process saying that with HCI, backup is no longer needed is a bit of a stretch. HCI vendors are doing their customers a disservice by making these claims and putting their customer’s data at risk.
In this ChalkTalk Video, I map out the problems with this claim and how IT can adequately protect their HCI environments.
To learn more about the problems with HCI backup read our latest blog “Hyperconvergence is NOT Backup”. We also discuss the HCI problem on our webinar “10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It“. Watch this on demand webinar to learn not only why HCI breaks but also learn about 9 other backup breakers and how to fix those too.
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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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