Copy data is getting a lot of attention and solutions to manage it are flooding to market. But a question few of these solutions let you ask is, “WHERE should that copy data reside?” For the most part, they assume…
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Where Should Copy Data Reside?
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, MSP, Replication, Virtualize
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Product Analysis – How Rubrik Handles Ransomware Recovery
A ransomware attack puts IT in a battle against the malware author. To the victor goes the data. Every organization needs a prevention strategy. It also must realize that at some point the virus will get through, and at that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud Backup, HDD, NFS, Ransomware, Recovery, Rubrik, SQL, SSD
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ChalkTalk Video: How Do You End Migration Headaches?
Selecting a new storage system is a lot of work. After the difficult task of selecting the new storage system is complete then there is still one more BIG challenge; how to get old data to the new system? The…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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ChalkTalk Video: All-Flash, Am I all Good?
When IT implements flash, especially all-flash, there is a general sigh of relief. They think the installation will solve all of their problems. But at least one problem remains…humans! Users and even IT professionals (also human) occasionally make a mistake…
Does Flash Eliminate Performance Optimization?
Flash storage is increasingly more affordable, so much so that many organizations are throwing storage infrastructure optimization out the window. Flash is making performance management and tuning a lost art form. The problem is performance management is still very necessary.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bottleneck, CPU, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, Optimization, SQL, Tegile
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How Hybrid Cloud Helps DR
Given the increased threats facing organizations today, a single DR site is no longer good enough. Instead organizations need to apply a hybrid cloud mentality to their disaster recovery strategies. What Will You Fail? The most important data after a…
StorageShort: How To Classify Your Applications for DR
Storage Switzerland’s W. Curtis Preston suggests in a recent video the key to a successful DR plan is classifying your applications into recovery buckets or priorities. But how exactly do you determine which applications should go into which bucket? In…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Replication, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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StorageShort: Does Flash Create Networking Problems?
All-flash arrays solve many performance problems. But the latency reduction they bring also exposes other weak links in the storage IO architecture. One of the most exposed areas is the network. For example, many times IT will install the flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, Flash, HPE, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, IoT
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The Art of Eliminating Downtime to Achieve High Availability
Downtime, no matter what the cause, is becoming less acceptable to organizations of all sizes. Clearly, technology exists that can eliminate it. But with the reduction or elimination of downtime, the associated costs – when compared to once-per-night backups –…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HA, Latency, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Synchronous
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Exploiting Ransomware’s Fatal Flaw
Ransomware has one fatal flaw. Organizations that know how to exploit this flaw can almost eliminate this cyber-attack from their list of concerns. Ironically the flaw is found in their very action it takes to hold organizations hostage – it…
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