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…
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Applying the 3-2-1 Backup Rule to Self-Protecting Primary Storage
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
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
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
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?
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…
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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How Ransomware and GDPR Break Image Based Backups and How to Fix It
Image based backups, after the initial backup is complete, only backup change blocks within the item they are protecting. The technology enables organizations to frequently backup critical servers and applications. It also enables the protection of file servers with millions…
Tagged with: CCPA, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Encryption, GDPR, ioFABRIC, Ransomware, Retention
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The ROI of Extreme Performance
In our recent webinar, “Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance”, Storage Switzerland and Violin Systems discussed the use cases that demand extreme performance over high performance. Extreme performance is for applications that can benefit from consistent…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Violin Memory, Violin Systems
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Data Management vs Data Protection
Storing data comes with responsibilities, two of which are managing that data and protecting it. Many organizations however, focus most of their attention on protecting the data and almost no attention to managing it. However, focusing attention solely on data…
How to Make One Thousand Snapshots Useful
Almost every modern storage system claims to support “thousands” of snapshots of production data without impacting performance. While some of the lack of performance impact claims have proven to be suspect, there is little doubt that today’s storage solutions support…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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New eBook: Taking The Load off Networks with Computational Storage
The data center is a series of networks. There are networks that connect servers to users and networks that connect storage to servers. Even within servers and storage there are networks to connect CPU to IO devices like flash drives…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Reducing the Cost of Scaling Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions start innocently enough. The organization starts with two or three nodes and initially it handles all their compute, and storage needs quite well. As the environment scales because of the growth of the initial workloads or…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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