In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…
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Situational Disaster Recovery
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Briefing Note: Running VMware in Google/Amazon Clouds – Ravello Launches Inception Beta
There are two parts to any cloud strategy; compute and storage. As discuss in our white paper, “Reverse Your Cloud Strategy” (register below), a cloud storage strategy becomes increasingly hard to justify over time. Cloud compute though is almost an…
Storage for the Real-Time Data Center
Organizations are expected to respond in real time to the needs of their customers. “Real Time”, however, is much more than just reacting faster to queries, it means tailoring the customer’s interaction with the organization so that they are presented…
Tagged with: All-Flash, ASIC, Dot Hill, Flash, Hybrid array, I/O, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD
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MS-SQL Performance – Things to do before you Flash
Prior to implementing a flash solution, it is important to make sure the environment is ready for it so maximum value can be extracted from the flash investment. Watch this trailer from our Webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?…
Briefing Note: Netlist Readies PCIe Based High Performance NVRAM
The ever-increasing density of virtual infrastructures, and the need to scale databases larger than ever, is creating an ongoing need for faster storage. And while flash has become the “go to” performance option, there are environments that still need more.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Density, Flash, Netlist, PCIe, RAM, Snapshot, SSD, Virtual Infrastructure
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Briefing Note: Imation focuses on locking down High-Value Data
There is a new data type that IT professionals need to be concerned with: high-value data. This is unstructured (file) data typically created by users, that has organizationally sensitive information in it and needs to be protected from tampering, loss…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Collaboration, File Sharing, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan
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The Apple Watch is Software-Defined Storage
Is seems that Apple has another success on its hands in the Apple Watch, but did you know that the Apple Watch could also be considered Software-Defined Storage (SDS)? I come to this conclusion based on the definition (a.k.a. rationalization)…
Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT
Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-converged, IOPS, Riverbed, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: Zerto brings Hypervisor-to-Hypervisor Replication
Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…
Tagged with: Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Zerto
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EMC World 2015 – OpenStack For Traditional Data Centers
One of the questions that we are getting more often than ever from IT professionals is “does it make sense for my organization to start to consider OpenStack?”. OpenStack is an open source effort that attempts to offer an Amazon…
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