Almost every week there is another incident of an Amazon S3 storage bucket being left open for anyone to access. These openings allowed data ranging from personal details of wireless customers to 200 million voter records to be exposed for…
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Protecting Against Open S3 Buckets
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Virtual
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Webinar: Endpoint Backup is not Enough – You Need an End-user Data Strategy
More data outside of the data center is staying on endpoints and in the cloud than ever before. That means the risks to that data are also at an all time high. Plus regulations encompassing end-user data are also increasing,…
End-to-End Data Management – Primary Data Briefing Note
The objective of data management is to make sure the right data is on the right type of storage at the right time. The problem is most vendors are too myopic in their treatment of the process. Vendors either focus…
SlideShare: What’s Next in Storage for Managed Service Providers?
How to Move Beyond Backup, to DRaaS, Copy Data Management and Primary Storage The cloud has brought both risk and reward to MSPs. In today’s hybrid cloud world, MSPs must deliver consumption-based, private and public cloud offerings to their clients.…
Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, MSP, Replication
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StorageShort: The High Density Flash Performance Problem
Thanks to the ever increasing density of flash, petabytes of flash storage in a few rack units is now reality. Imagine fitting all of the data center capacity needs in a space smaller than half a rack. The problem, though,…
Data Center Modernization Needs Modernized Servers
Cisco UCS M5 Today’s data center is made up of hypervisors that control and provision compute resources and software that defines and allocates storage capacity. The software defined data center still needs an engine – and that engine is the…
Tagged with: Capacity, CISCO, Flash, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, NVMe, Optimization, Software Defined, VDI, VM
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StorageShort: Designing a Multiple Location NAS
In an effort to find talent many organizations have multiple locations so employees don’t have to move across the country or suffer through multiple hour commutes. Technology is the key enabler to having a number of locations but there is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Which Type of Hyperconverged System is Right For Your Data Center?
Hyperconverged solutions come in two forms. The first is a hardware defined model where the hyperconverged software and server hardware are bundled together and sold as a turnkey system. The second is a software only system, where IT uses the…
NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics Critical To Next Generation Storage Architectures
The storage media used to be the slowest component within the storage architecture. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. While the performance and low latency of flash allows data centers to make significant steps forward in application scale…
A Hybrid Cloud is not Two Clouds
VMware starts the organization on the journey to the software defined data center. With their workloads freed from the bounds of physical hardware they look for ways to take advantage of the newfound application mobility. Destinations under consideration include both…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Copy Data, DRaaS, Hybrid, Latency, Software Defined, VMware
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