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Lightboard Video: Why is NOW the Time for SDS?
As a term, software-defined storage (SDS) has been around for over a decade. The concept of abstracting storage software from the storage hardware is even older, predating Y2K. Despite its time on the market and many apparent advantages, SDS adoption…
New White Paper: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Protection
Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management
Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn’t have a cloud-native application, they may want…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
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Posted in Webinar
Is it Time to Bring Back File by File Backup for Unstructured Data?
Unstructured data, more because of the sheer number of individual files than the capacity it consumes, creates challenges for IT professionals looking to protect it. To get around the problem of massive file growth many data protection software solutions have…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Posted in Blog
The Problem with Image Backup for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data presents two challenges to the typical backup process. First, the overall volume of the data set can be the largest data set in terms of capacity that the backup application needs to protect. Second, and potentially more problematic,…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
File Servers; Is It Time to Say Goodbye?
Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data in the data center. A significant portion of data within unstructured data is the data that users create though office productivity and other specialized applications. User data also often represents the bulk…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Ransomware, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VPN
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Does Cloud-Native Mean Cloud Protected?
As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they sometimes assume that data protection is built-in to the service. However, what cloud service providers offer is high availability and durability, not backup. But organizations, whether their applications are in the cloud…
Tagged with: Archive, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Privacy, Deduplication, HYCU, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshots, SQL
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Getting the Most Out of Cloud Storage for Backups
Most IT professionals want to use cloud storage in hopes of reducing on-premises backup infrastructure costs. While most on-premises backup software solutions claim cloud support, how they implement that support can vary significantly from vendor to vendor. Many backup software…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Understanding Software-Defined File Systems
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a frequently used term that can have different definitions depending on the vendor using the term. SDS solutions can be block, file, or object-based. File systems are almost always software-defined and nearly always run on top…
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