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15 Minute Webinar: What Are Composable Infrastructures?

Posted on May 6, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals are hearing a lot about composable infrastructures and many vendors are claiming to offer a solution, but only a few have truly composable solutions ready for deployment today. The goal of composability is to bring the cloud like…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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Are NVMe Flash Arrays Viable for Traditional Workloads?

Posted on May 6, 2019 by George Crump

NVMe Flash Arrays promise an unprecedented level of performance thanks to the higher command count, queue depth and PCIe connectivity. Most NVMe Arrays are boasting IOPS statistics of close to one million IOPS and latency in the low hundreds of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, ROI, SAS, Western Digital
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The Business of Being an MSP

Posted on May 3, 2019 by George Crump

The business side of being a managed service provider is at least as important as the technology. MSPs need to be careful in who they do business with. They need to take a long term view of their relationships and…

Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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Webinar: Simplifying the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI

Posted on May 2, 2019 by George Crump

Many organizations need to continue to run virtualized applications on-premises but are also looking to replace and consolidate aging server infrastructure. At the same time, these organizations want to leverage cloud services for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery…

Tagged with: Axellio, Azure, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Virtualization
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The Requirements of a SmartStore Storage Infrastructure

Posted on May 2, 2019 by George Crump

Splunk SmartStore enables organizations to achieve a high degree of compute/storage elasticity and makes it possible to achieve longer data retention without compromising performance or breaking the budget. A critical component of SmartStore is the storage system that it uses…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Webinar: Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance

Posted on April 30, 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
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How to Backup Google Cloud SQL – HYCU Briefing Note

Posted on April 29, 2019 by George Crump

Each of the major cloud providers, Amazon, Google and Azure, provide SQL as a service. While these providers offer data protection, that protection is more for high availability (HA) rather than backup. Most cloud providers leverage replication to protect against…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, HA, HYCU, Replication, SQL
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Is Your Data Protection Architecture Holding You Back?

Posted on April 29, 2019 by George Crump

In most organizations the data protection architecture has gone unchanged for almost a decade. It’s true that certain components within the architecture change because of technological advances or forced refreshes but the basic design remains the same. The challenge with…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Replication, SaaS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SLA, StorageCraft
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Cut Costs, Increase Quality and Accelerate Delivery of New Applications – IBM InfoSphere Virtual Data Pipeline

Posted on April 29, 2019 by George Crump

Application development is quickly changing from the old waterfall approach where applications were delivered once a year and all at once, to a more continuous development method where applications are delivered more frequently with more incremental changes between releases. The…

Tagged with: Actifio, Archive, Data Privacy, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, dr, IBM, Replication, ROI
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SlideShare: Three Steps to Modernizing Backup Storage

Posted on April 26, 2019 by George Crump

Backup software is continuously improving. Solutions like Veeam Backup and Replication deliver instant recoveries, enabling virtual machine volumes to instantiate directly on the backup device, without having to wait for data to transfer back to primary storage. These solutions can…