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SlideShare: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud
Most storage consolidation strategies fail because they attempt to consolidate to a single piece of storage hardware. To successfully consolidate storage, IT professionals need to look at consolidation strategies that worked. Server consolidation was VMware’s first use case. It was…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, ML, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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SlideShare: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Endpoint Data Strategy?
As organizations and their employees become more distributed, a case can be made that endpoints (laptops, tablets and smartphones) are some of the most critical pieces of technology in the organization. The problem is most organizations haven’t revisited their endpoint…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO
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Is NVMe Enough for Efficient Hyperscale Data Centers?
Hyperscale architectures typically sacrifice resource efficiency for performance by using direct attached storage instead of a shared storage solution. That lost efficiency though, means the organization is spending money on excess compute, graphics processing units (GPUs) and storage capacity that…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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How to Make Data Archiving Easier Than Expanding Primary Storage
Most IT professionals will admit that most of their data is inactive and hasn’t been accessed in years. Storage Switzerland finds that over 80% of the data in most data centers falls into this category. There are viable solutions to…
Overcoming Shortcomings of SaaS Based Data Protection
Most organizations don’t make money off their data protection process; instead they view it as an insurance policy in case something goes wrong. These organizations, however, do make sporadic investments in the data protection infrastructure and these investments consume a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, SaaS, SLA
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Democratizing Disaster Recovery
VeeamON Briefing Note – Veeam Availability Orchestrator 2.0 Disaster Recovery (DR) is about more than just recovering data. When a data center is down and applications need to restart in another location, there is a whole series of events that…
Tagged with: Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, dr, NFS, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VeeamON 2019
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NAKIVO 8.5 Briefing Note
Protecting VMs in a Multi-Hypervisor World In most organizations, day-to-day applications run in a virtual machine on a hypervisor. VMware tends to be the most common hypervisor in use with Hyper-V quickly gaining ground. However, a new hypervisor from Nutanix,…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Replication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Nakivo, Replication, ROI, RTO, Virtual machine, VMware
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SlideShare: Rearchitecting Storage for the Next Wave of Splunk Data Growth
Splunk is one of the most broadly adopted analytics applications on the market today. The primary reason for its popularity is it analyzes data that organizations already have, like log and metadata generated from IT operations, enterprise security and various…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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The Problems with Hyperscale Storage
Direct attached storage (DAS) is the default storage “infrastructure” for data intensive workloads like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow. The problem, as we detailed in the last blog, is using DAS creates a brittle, siloed environment. Compute nodes can’t be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DAS, DriveScale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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