To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its…
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SlideShare: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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When is Object Storage NOT the Answer?
Object storage plays an essential role in today’s data center, but that does not mean that organizations need to give up on their network-attached storage (NAS) solutions. While the capacity demands of unstructured data are growing at alarming rates, the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Qumulo, Retention, SMB, Unstructured data
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A Better Convergence for Converged Data Protection?
Converged data protection solutions attempt to manage all backup software and protection storage management operations from a single interface. These solutions also tend to be scale-out, addressing another big backup pain point, scaling and managing the backup repository. The challenge…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Converged, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Migration, Nutanix, Tape
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The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service
The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
Backup as a Service Without Compromise
Protecting an organization’s digital assets is more challenging than ever. Users expect IT to backup all data, retain those backups indefinitely, and be able to recover data quickly with no loss or interruption. At the same time, IT has more…
Tagged with: Baas, Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
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How to Make HCI Work Like the Cloud
Increasingly, organizations are looking to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify their on-premises architectures to make them more cloud-like. Obvious considerations for IT professionals looking to move to HCI are Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC, Nutanix, and VMware HCI. This writeup is…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LUN, Redundancy, VM, VSAN
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Requirements for Unstructured Data at Petabyte Scale
Unstructured data is hard to manage. When an organization’s unstructured data assets cross the petabyte threshold, though, controlling the data set brings on an entirely new set of challenges. Most legacy network-attached storage (NAS) systems struggle to manage 100 terabyte…
How Does Your 2020 DR Plan Need to Change?
With each passing year, disaster recovery changes. Most of the time, those changes relate to faster and faster recoveries, as well as protection from net threats like ransomware. In 2020 the pressure to recover even faster remains critical, but there…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Commvault, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, RTO
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Purpose-Built Backup for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data has grown dramatically in terms of total capacity, the number of files, and criticality to the organization. Home directories now represent the bulk of the organization’s creative output, and losing or not being able to find that data…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Cloud, NAS, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Disaster Recovery Workshop: Dealing with New Requirements, Expectations, and Threats
Disaster Recovery (DR) is changing, and DR plans need to change with it. Legislative bodies want companies to not only prove their ability to recover from a disaster, but they have specific guidelines as to how long that effort can…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Cyber Security, Disaster recovery, dr, ML, Ransomware, Software Defined, VM
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