It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…
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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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Lightboard Video: Accelerating AI by Solving the Storage Challenge
Artificial Intelligence workloads push current IT architectures to their extremes. For the first time both computing horsepower and All-Flash Storage I/O can be overwhelmed by AI demands. GPUs from companies like Nvidia have largely solved the computing problem but the…
Consumption-Based Data Protection Brings Predictability
Bringing predictability to the data protection process is not a lost cause. The problem is that IT lacks a purchasing model to make data protection predictable and a software/hardware stack that works well with that model. As discussed in the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Selecting the Right Service Delivery Model for MSP Services
IT Services Agent or Provider Managed Service Providers (MSP) often become MSPs by evolving from a traditional IT reseller to the more services oriented approach. Other organizations specifically choose to start as MSPs after watching the challenges that traditional IT…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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Lightboard Video: Creating a Universal Infrastructure to Manage High Availability
Applications have seen explosive growth in the enterprise. Where just a few years ago there were three or four mission critical applications now there could be dozens. The organization is also more dependent on these applications than it has ever…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Ransomware, Redundancy, SDS, Snapshot, Veritas
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Lightboard Video: What is the Next Generation of NAS?
Unstructured data continues to grow unabated and traditional network attached storage (NAS) systems simply can’t keep pace. These systems are often cloud ignorant, can’t deal with the growing population of small file workloads and provide almost no insight into the…
The Changing Role of Data Protection in the Modern Data Center
For decades, data centers have tried to use the data protection process to not only provide the organization with rapid recovery capabilities but also long-term data retention. Many organizations go so far as to use the backup process as an…
Tagged with: Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, GDPR, Migration, Ransomware, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe storage systems and NVMe networks promise to reduce latency further and increase performance beyond what SAS based flash systems and current networking technology can deliver. To take advantage of that performance gain, however, the data center must have workloads…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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How to Use Copy Data Locally, Regionally and Globally
Copy Data is secondary copies of data that already exists on primary storage. These copies are used for recovery, reporting, analytics and testing. Most copy data management solutions are really just advanced snapshot management tools. They don’t provide a robust…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtualization
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Three Things Missing From Your Enterprise Cloud Backup Solution
Many organizations are considering switching to a cloud backup solution to meet their data protection needs. Cloud backup promises to reduce the data protection headache by reducing the investment in on-premises infrastructure. And while cloud backup does provide almost automatic…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, SLA
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