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SlideShare: Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

All-Flash arrays are no longer a one size fits all. There is a clear line of demarcation between standard all-flash and extreme flash, but most suppliers try to squeeze all of an organization’s problems into a single system architecture because…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
Posted in Slideshare

SlideShare: Complete Your Cloud Transformation – Store Your Data in The Cloud (and live to tell about it)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are moving to the cloud but according to a recent Osterman Research study, only 14% of companies have completed that transformation. The study clearly identifies data storage as an area where IT can easily accelerate their cloud transformation journey.…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HubStor, Migration, ML, Osterman Research
Posted in Slideshare

Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note

On Demand Webinar: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 1, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Webinar

Breaking Backup with SaaS

Posted on June 27, 2019 by George Crump

Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
Posted in Blog

How to Design a Modern Data Protection Architecture

Posted on June 26, 2019 by George Crump

Data Protection is changing. Today backup software can recover in-place, instantiating volumes directly on the backup storage which enables organizations to significantly reduce recovery windows. Consequently, the performance of the backup storage hardware matters more than ever. At the same…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Applying the 3-2-1 Backup Rule to Self-Protecting Primary Storage

Posted on June 21, 2019 by George Crump

Primary storage has two key functions, to deliver data as fast as possible to the applications and users requesting it, and to maintain data accessibility in the event of a hardware failure. Primary storage vendors have attempted to expand their…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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Understanding the Azure Hybrid Cloud On-Ramp

Posted on June 20, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations approach the cloud without a formal strategy. They pick a pain point, like backup and disaster recovery, as a starting point with the hope of adding more services as they become more cloud savvy. What often happens, however,…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Multi-Cloud versus the Five Requirements of Data – Datrium Briefing Note

Posted on June 20, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to meet five core requirements of the data they store; encryption, mobility, performance, retention and disaster recovery. To deliver these elements, IT is often forced to use five or more products just for on-premises data, let alone the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, HCI, Hyperconverged, Replication, Retention
Posted in Briefing Note

What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?

Posted on June 19, 2019 by George Crump

The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…