Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues to play an essential role within the data center, even as it becomes more distributed. It is in trying to consolidate the data protection of on-premises private clouds and public clouds though, that typically means using an application not purpose-built for either environment. As a result, data protection complexity increases.
Organizations need data protection solutions custom-designed for each cloud environment so that they not only look and feel like an application native to the respective environment but that also take full advantage of that environment’s capabilities. At the same time, the organization does not want to end up managing multiple cloud data protection silos. Centralizing the control aspect enables organizations to keep the correct data on the proper storage even when a backup exceeds the capacity of the original system.
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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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