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ChalkTalk Video: Archive – It’s About More Than Saving Money
When most organizations consider an archiving project their primary goal is to save money. Basically they are looking to move data off of expensive storage valued at a couple dollars per GB to secondary storage valued at pennies a GB.…
What is Hybrid DRaaS
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) outsources the typical DR process to a cloud provider so when a data center loss event occurs an organization can re-start their critical applications in the provider’s cloud. DRaaS saves an organization the cost…
What are your Backup Storage Options?
When it came to selecting the storage target for an organization’s backups the choice was simple; tape. At the time, that is all there was. Now, though, there are an almost overwhelming number of options including fully integrated (including software)…
ChalkTalk Video: How Can Object Storage Solve The Ransomware Problem?
Ransomware is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations, regardless of size. It breaks backup because the data you are most likely to pay to un-encrypt is the data that your organization has been changing since the last backup occurred.…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Caringo, dr, Encryption, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note
The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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Are We Using Windows File Servers for the Wrong Reason?
Windows file servers are primarily used to store unstructured data. The type of unstructured data varies from user-created documents to machine-generated audio and video. They even store analytics data machines and other servers generate. While the type of data a…
DockerCon 2017 – Storage Strategies for Deploying and Managing Successful Cloud Apps
Listen to Storage Switzerland and leaders from the Docker industry for this round-table discussion on developing the right storage strategies to successfully deploy and manage Docker both in your environment and in the cloud. Representatives from Red Hat, Portworx, HyperGrid…
ChalkTalk Video: How To Overcome the All-Flash Let Down
All-flash arrays are the performance sledgehammer, often obliterating the storage performance problem organizations hoped to resolve when buying them. The challenge is as the organization adds additional workloads to the array, its low latency exposes other bottlenecks in the environment…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, HPE, Latency, Recovery, Replication, Snapshot
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Can You Eliminate Downtime? – New White Paper
Achieving a zero or near-zero recovery point and recovery time objective requires planning. From a data perspective, IT needs to position the data in a ready state on the recovery system. The positioning or copying of data needs to happen either as,…
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