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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by George Crump

Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and…

Tagged with: Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, ScaleFlux
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You Need a Multi-Flash Storage Strategy

Posted on August 1, 2019 by George Crump

The two big trends in flash technology are Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) flash and QLC (quad-level cell) but they are at opposite ends of the spectrum from a use case perspective. NVMe flash is designed for extremely high performance and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, IOPS, Micron, NVMe, QLC, SAS, SATA, SSD, TLC
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Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud

Posted on July 31, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud is a hot topic right now in IT circles. Instead of being locked into a single cloud, organizations can shift workloads between clouds as needed. Multi-cloud enables them to receive the best pricing possible on cloud services and resources.…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

Posted on July 30, 2019 by George Crump

When a company begins its cloud journey, they often assume they need to move everything to one of the “big 3” (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute). Many organizations want to maintain control of their data and leverage only…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Egress Fees, File Virtualization, IOPS, Madison Cloud, OPEX, Scale, Virtualization
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Is Best of Breed the Next Generation of Cloud?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud provider landscape is dominated by a few large mega-cloud providers that attempt to provide a wide range of applications, services, compute, and storage to their customers. However, a new wave of cloud providers is emerging that focus on…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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Preparing Object Storage for the Cloud Data Management Avalanche

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Crump

Hybrid Cloud, thanks to its flexibility when deploying compute and storage, is the deployment architecture that most organizations are choosing for their cloud strategy. The challenge is that hybrid cloud, by its very nature, means that data is distributed across…

Tagged with: Assessment, Cloud, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NFS, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, STaaS, Unstructured data
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Surviving the Multiple Data Protection App Reality

Posted on July 26, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations have more than one backup application, in fact most have three to four and are finding the number of backup applications they need to protect the organizations assets is increasing. At the same time industry and governmental requirements…

Tagged with: Backup, Bocada Software, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Hybrid, SLA, VM
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Webinar: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape

Posted on July 25, 2019 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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How to Get Your Application Ready for Computational Storage Architecture

Posted on July 25, 2019 by George Crump

At its most basic, computational storage involves putting processing power where the data resides. In the case of flash storage, a computational storage vendor installs processing power on the flash drive. Imagine an array full of 100 flash drives; now…