Protection in the modern data center is changing. IT must provide backup to disk and an instant recover capability to meet the recovery expectations of application owners. But this rapid protection also puts data at risk to a ransomware attack.…
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ChalkTalk Video: Using the 3-2-1 Rule To Protect Against Ransomware
Tagged with: Backup, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, LTFS, LTO, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Tape, Veeam, VMworld2017, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: What is Composable Storage?
As the data centers scale, guaranteeing critical applications, the performance need to meet demands of users becomes very important. The problem is most flash arrays, if they provide a quality of service (QoS) capability at all, can only deliver a…
ChalkTalk Video: Merging Storage Silos
It seems like today’s data center has a storage system for every occasion. There is NAS for unstructured data, block for databases, archive systems to meet compliance demands, data protection storage to store backups and now mobility storage to meet…
How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications
Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…
Does All-Flash Really Eliminate VMware Performance Tuning?
VMware, as it became the standard in the data center, created a huge storage problem, often called the IO blender. Fortunately, as the IO blender problem was about to reach its peak, hybrid and all-flash arrays came to market reducing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, Latency, NAND, SAN, Virtual Instruments, VMware
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Distributed Storage Goes Mainstream
Distributed storage offers more capability than traditional scale-out solutions. They scale further, are more granular and have a better multi-site/multi-cloud model. But distributed systems are typically viewed as the storage system for the next generation data center, and while they…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Encryption, Flash, Hedvig, Hypervisor, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SDS, VM
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The Always-On Data Fabric – ioFABRIC FMS Briefing Note
While most software defined storage (SDS) solutions offer a degree of data services consolidation within a single data center, they don’t extend that consolidation of services across locations and into the cloud. Each location is discrete and needs separate management.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Fabric, FMS2017, ioFABRIC, Migration, RPO, RTO, SDS
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Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?
An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Do You Need to Retain End-User Data?
An end-user data strategy for most organizations begins and ends with data protection. Certainly the ability to backup and recover user devices is critical and the most high profile component of the strategy, but retention of end-user data may be…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Retention, Scale
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What’s Next after NVMe?
NVMe is a protocol designed specifically for memory based storage technologies like flash drives. The new industry standard protocol is seeing rapid adoption among vendors meaning the data center may see these solutions become mainstream before the end of the…
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