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Webinar: Capacity – Ransomware – Protection – Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
Most organizations are looking to improve their Windows file server environment by adding capacity, developing a ransomware strategy and improving overall data protection. For most enterprises, optimizing your Windows file server means buying a new, bigger server with more capacity…
HPE Buys Nimble – What Were They Thinking?
Yesterday HPE announced it is buying Nimble Storage for a little over 1 billion dollars. That news took almost everyone off-guard and also brought the immediate, “HPE is crazy”, reaction. Instead of writing something up right away, I needed to…
Are Snapshots and Replication Enough for VMware DR?
Most of the environment in a majority of data centers is now virtualized, often using VMware as the primary hypervisor. These organizations have also virtualized mission critical applications which need to be recovered quickly in the event of a disaster.…
Cloud Compute Needs Enterprise Storage – Nimble Briefing Note
Cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Azure all provide both compute and storage services. Compute is used to host applications and storage is used to store data. The cloud is tailor made for providing compute because applications that are multi-threaded…
Tagged with: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Bursting, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Nimble, performance, Reliability, Replication
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What is Your Recovery Performance Expectation?
Storage Switzerland works with IT professionals to design data protection and disaster recovery plans. Those conversations always start with a discussion about service level objectives (SLO). Each application or data set should have an SLO, that comes from several very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Flash, Infrascale, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO
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The VMware File Services Problem
One of the challenges facing virtualized environments, especially hyperconverged ones is how to provide file services to their users because after virtualization users still need to share data. One method is to select a storage system for the virtual infrastructure…
The Value of NAS Integrated Backup in a Virtualized Environment
Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers are widely used for storing virtual machine backups. What’s been lacking is a method to integrate the two workload types that many consider mutually exclusive: backup software and backup storage. The Advantage of On-Appliance Backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Primary Storage Refresh is More than Flash
Primary storage refresh projects usually start from some combination of need for more performance, more capacity or because the storage system is coming off of maintenance. A key feature IT professionals look for in new primary storage system is flash.…
What is a Data Fabric?
When most IT professionals hear the phrase “storage is growing”, they typically roll their eyes and assume the vendor is talking about the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in data capacity requirements over the last decade or so. But storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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