As IT organizations attempt to modernize, they continue to look for ways to offer more of their capabilities as a service. Good examples of this are software as a service and infrastructure as a service. The problem is one of…
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Enterprise Backup vs Point Backup
For two decades IT has had two choices when selecting a data protection solution. They can choose a holistic solution that covers the majority of the applications, operating systems and data protection goals or they can select a point data…
How to Deliver Files Anywhere and Security Everywhere
Users seem to be everywhere and they can carry their compute in multiple forms (laptop, tablet, smartphone) at all times. They also want to have their files, the subset corporate data they work on, with them at all times. Also,…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, file sync and share, Flash, IBM, Latency, Shadow IT, VPN
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Understanding Object Storage Consumption Models
Object storage is quickly becoming the standard for storing large amounts of unstructured data. One of the most appealing aspects of object storage is its flexibility that spans a variety of storage infrastructure configurations and storage locations. This flexibility is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, EMC, Encryption, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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StorageShort: Are All-Flash Arrays Really the same Price as Hard Disk Arrays?
A claim that many all-flash vendors are making is they reached price parity with hard disk based arrays. If that is true, then organizations would be crazy to buy any storage system with a hard disk in it. But it…
Tagged with: file sync and share, Flash, ISCSI, NAS, Nexsan, NFS, SMB, Snapshots
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SlideShare: Four Reasons Why Your Backup Hardware Will Break by 2020
While backup software vendors continue to innovate, hardware vendors have been resting on their deduplication laurels. In the meantime, the amount of data that organizations store continues to grow at an alarming pace and the backup and recovery expectations of…
How To Survive 2017’s Flash Drought
“IT we have a problem, we are out of flash.” On several occasions flash NAND manufacturers are telling Storage Switzerland they are nearly sold-out of flash for the rest of the year. A lack of supply means flash storage prices…
How Does DRaaS Work? A Step by Step Description
Disaster Recovery As a Service (DRaaS) is an increasingly popular method for businesses of all sizes to address shortcomings in their disaster recovery plan. By leveraging a combination of cloud backup and virtualization, providers are able to provide organizations with…
What is Data Management Sprawl?
Data Management is the art of intelligently moving data to the tier of storage that best balances the performance requirements with the cost of storing it and stage of its life cycle. In a perfect world, organizations would put all…
Webinar: How To Achieve Total File Security in the Cloud
Today’s IT professional is stuck in the middle of a file sharing tug of war. One side has the end users who want the improved productivity that mobility and collaboration promises. The other side consists of corporate governance that wants…
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