Cloud Storage
It’s Not If Backup Software is Using Cloud Storage, it’s How - Almost every backup solution on the market today claims some form of cloud storage support. IT planners need to understand what type of cloud storage their backup solution provides and if the architecture of the solution can genuinely take advantage…
What is Purpose-Built Backup? - Consolidation of backup hardware and software is perpetually on the mind of IT professionals. At some point, a well-meaning IT Manager initiates a consolidation effort to try to simplify backup operations by consolidating backup hardware and software onto a single…
The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service - The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
What is a Second-Generation Cloud Strategy? - Adoption of cloud services is following a trend similar to on-premises data center infrastructure. Many data centers begin using a single infrastructure vendor, compromising flexibility for the assumed simplicity of a single solution. As data centers evolve, they gravitate toward…
Key Management – The Dirty Secret of HCI Encryption - Edge data centers can be remote retail locations or offices, oil rigs, temporary command centers and even mobile data centers in the back of a van. Finding a solution that provides the performance edge data centers need at a price…
Meet The CEO: HYCU, Inc’s Simon Taylor - Backup and Recovery is as old as the data center itself, but organizations still struggle with the process. IT professionals have tried many solutions to solve their data protection solutions, and the market is full of options, but none seem…
How to Design a Modern Data Protection Architecture - Data Protection is changing. Today backup software can recover in-place, instantiating volumes directly on the backup storage which enables organizations to significantly reduce recovery windows. Consequently, the performance of the backup storage hardware matters more than ever. At the same…
The Requirements of a SmartStore Storage Infrastructure - Splunk SmartStore enables organizations to achieve a high degree of compute/storage elasticity and makes it possible to achieve longer data retention without compromising performance or breaking the budget. A critical component of SmartStore is the storage system that it uses…
The Questions You’re NOT Asking Your DRaaS Provider - Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is an ideal cloud use case. DRaaS uses a cloud provider’s resources and allocates them on-demand to an organization in the midst of a disaster. With DRaaS, organizations no longer need to worry about…
How to Evolve From Unstructured Data Protection to Unstructured Data Management - A recent report from Igneous, “The State of Unstructured Management 2018,” indicates that most IT professionals are not satisfied with their ability to meet organizational expectations about the backup, recovery, and retention of their unstructured data sets. The value that…
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