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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…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cloud Mirroring, Cloud Only, Cloud Tiering, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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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…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, HCDP, Hybrid, HYCU, Hypervisor, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, TCO
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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Take “Create DR Plan” OFF of Your 2020 Project Goals
If disaster strikes, the purpose of a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to guide the available IT personnel through the process of recovering the data center, either at an alternate site owned by the company or a facility owned by…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, DRP, iland, Replication, RTO, VMware
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Posted in Blog
Webinar: Designing Storage Infrastructures for AI Workloads
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads are fundamentally different from any other workload. These workloads deal in data sets measured in dozens of petabytes of capacity, and large percentages of it can go from dormant to active at…
Are All-Flash Arrays All Wrong for AI and DL Workloads?
When designing a storage infrastructure for an artificial intelligence (AI) or deep learning (DL) workload, the default assumption is that an all-flash array (AFA) or something even faster must be at the heart of the design. The problem is as…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Metadata, Object Storage, SwiftStack
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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c
Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Does All-Flash Kill Data Management?
Most of today’s modern storage systems have a scale-out design, meaning they can expand to meet almost all of the data center’s capacity requirements. Also, since an increasing number of these systems are all-flash, they can meet most data center’s…
Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup
There is a difference between availability and backup. Providing a workload with high availability means that if a component of the infrastructure fails, adequate measures are in place to ensure that the use of the workload continues with little or…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
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