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VMware Storage Needs Intelligence and Awareness for a Different Experience
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Creating a Cloud Strategy for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data is a growing problem for enterprise organizations. An increasing number of these companies have file counts in the billions and storage capacities over 1PB. These organizations are looking to the cloud to help mitigate some of their unstructured…
Data Management as a Service – Igneous Briefing Note
Data management is a project that many IT professionals and application owners feel they are too busy or don’t have enough expertise to undertake. Most data management tasks are big projects that take a lot of planning and continuous care…
Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, CapEx, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, WAN
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Skip the Disk – Send Backups Straight to Tape
All restores are not created equal, even during a disaster. The reality is that IT should not recover most mission critical systems from a backup of any kind (flash, disk or tape). Instead, IT should recover these critical systems from…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration
During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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The Ultimate Tape Advantage – Cold Offsite Storage
One of the biggest advantages to integrating tape media into the backup infrastructure is the door it opens for the organization to leverage cold offsite storage. As we’ve discussed throughout this series most data occupying capacity on a disk backup…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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When is it Time to Move to NVMe?
Most major storage vendors are now delivering Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based All-Flash Arrays. Initially, most of these arrays use NVMe drives internally but connect to the storage network via standard network protocols like SCSI over Fibre Channel. A few…
Webinar: Designing SAN Infrastructure for NVMe
NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) are on the near-horizon for many organizations. IT planners need to ready their SANs for this new low latency, high-performance storage technology. To accomplish this task, organizations need to invest now in technology that…
Solving the Media and Advertising Firm Storage Challenge
Many media and advertising firms require multi-site collaboration and external file sharing. Like most industries, these firms are also facing unprecedented data growth both within their core data center and at the edge. They, like the larger media and entertainment…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CTERA, Data Retention, dr, Edge Filer, HDD, NAS, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, SSD
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Automating Hybrid Cloud
Creating a hybrid cloud is much harder than organizations expect. Cloud infrastructures run different hypervisors than on-premises, which means it’s necessary to transform the workloads before they can run in the cloud, and then transform them back if the organization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cohesity, Container, Dev/Test, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication
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