The cloud seems like a logical destination for backup data. It is by definition off-site, and the organization no longer needs to worry about allocating valuable floor space to secondary data storage. The problem is that most cloud backup solutions…
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SlideShare: 5 Critical Enterprise Cloud Backup Capabilities
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO
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How to Design a Modern Architecture for Data Management and Data Protection
Today’s organizations look at data differently: It’s seen as an asset that can be mined to improve product creation and delivery as well as improve customer satisfaction. External forces also see data differently: Governments and customers expect organizations to maintain…
How to Avoid the Storage Refresh
IT professionals look forward to storage refreshes as much as they look forward to a trip to the dentist. In fact, the dentist may be preferable. There are certainly times where storage needs to be upgraded but IT should do…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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15 Minute Webinar: Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Roadblocks
For most organizations, unstructured data is their biggest problem. The need to store all this data is forcing IT to expand primary storage capacities at an alarming rate. Unstructured data not only threatens to break IT budgets, but also force…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Shortcomings of Legacy NAS with Microsoft Azure
Most organizations use Network Attached Storage (NAS) to store data, but the modern workforce and organization expect more capabilities than what the typical NAS can provide. Also, as organizations themselves become more distributed, the idea of a single centralized file…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Hybrid, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, RPO, RTO, Unstructured data
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The Requirements of a Cloud-Like Experience for On-Premises Mission Critical Workloads
The cloud provides computing, networking and storage resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. IT resources become an operational expense. Most on-premises data center resources need to be purchased up front. IT resources are a capital expense. The challenge with purchasing hardware…
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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Lightboard Video: Object Storage Isn’t Just For Cold Data Anymore
Object Storage, because of its ability to cost effectively store petabytes plus of data, is often thought of as a digital dumping ground. While object storage is an ideal location for inactive data, customers aren’t deriving the full benefit of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Are Storage Infrastructures Fixing the Wrong Problem? – Formulus Black Briefing Note
When the CPU needs data, the role of the storage system is to transfer information into main memory so the CPU can process it. The memory channels between the CPU and main memory is very fast and the number of…
Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Formulus Black, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, NVDIMM, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SSD
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Agent or Provider? The MSP Conundrum
Managed Service Providers (MSP) have a decision to make, should they be an agent or a provider? Both choices have ramifications on the business both short term and long-term. Understanding the pros and cons of each model is critical in…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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Enabling Intel Optane for Modern Applications – MemVerge Briefing Note
Workloads, from a performance perspective, are polarizing. Many workloads have all their performance demands met by the typical all-flash array. At the other pole however is a group of applications that need more performance that what even NVMe based storage…
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