While every IT professional will admit that it is important, disaster recovery testing generally falls to the bottom of the IT to do list, right after root canal. But if testing is not a key component, the process of creating…
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Why Do All-Flash Arrays Need QoS?
If all-flash arrays provide instant, unlimited performance, why manage how much of that performance they deliver through techniques like quality of service (QoS)? For most organizations one of the attractions to all-flash arrays is the set and forget answer to…
Storage Problems Limit Hyperconverged Scale
Hyperconvergence has a real problem. It can’t scale. While hyperconverged architectures may be a good match for medium sized business, as the environment scales it’s “all for one, one for all” simplicity becomes problematic. As is usually the case, storage…
Tagged with: Datrium, Erasure code, Flash, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Replication, Scalability, Virtualization
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Webinar: 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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How To Create an Always Predictable Data Center
The modern data center must not only be predictable for normal production operations but also in failed state situations. An “Always Predictable” storage architecture is key to enabling IT to meet the various service levels the organization requires. The Predictable…
Tagged with: All-Flash, dr, performance, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshot, Veeam
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SlideShare: Optimizing Flash Storage for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge? For many organizations, Microsoft SQL is the heartbeat of the business and IT professionals are under pressure to increase performance, reduce costs and improve protection. Storage vendors will point you toward flash.…
StorageShort – Ransomware 101
Ransomware is capturing more than its fair share of headlines. In this StorageShort, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, and Gregg Ogden, Solutions Marketer at Commvault, discuss what ransomware is and what makes it different from other disasters that…
Use Your Metadata to Eliminate Storage Complexity
Organizations need to break down the walls between storage systems and data center locations. Seamless data movement eliminates the need for data migration, optimizes storage resources and even eliminates cloud lock-in. But how does the organization facilitate this movement without…
ChalkTalk Video: Practicing For Ransomware
A successful ransomware attack is a disaster like none other. Much of the environment is probably still up, especially applications. But an important part of it, user files, may be down. And there is a tempting shortcut: Pay the ransom…
SlideShare: How to “Future Proof” Data Protection for Organizational Resilience
Users expectations of IT’s ability to return mission critical applications to production are higher than ever. These expectations are leading IT to abandon many of their backup and recovery solutions to try new, unproven solutions that may or may not…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Replication, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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