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What’s Your Backup Retention Policy?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

What is the default retention policy for your backups? If you are like most organizations we speak to, the answer is typically three or more years. The next question is why, as in why is your backup retention so long?…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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What are the Best Use Cases for Object Storage?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

As part of our “2019 Strategies Series”, Storage Switzerland hosted a panel discussion “What’s Your Plan for Object Storage”, to help organizations create and implement an object storage strategy. Experts from Caringo, Cloudian and Scality joined Storage Switzerland for a…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloudian, file sync and share, GDPR, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality
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Enterprise Class Open SDS – SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 Briefing Note

Posted on November 21, 2018 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, CEPH, Cloud, HPC, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale, SDS, SMB, SUSE
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Scale-Out Storage: The Advantages of Replication vs. Erasure Coding

Posted on November 20, 2018 by George Crump

Scale-out storage systems tend to protect data from media failure in one of two ways; they either use replication or erasure coding. Replication creates a user-defined number of copies of data, typically a minimum of three, as it is created…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS
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Webinar: Consumption Based Data Management Providing Peace of Mind

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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The Anatomy of the Copy Data Problem

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Countless IT processes count on copies of data. Backup is an obvious example, but test/dev, analytics processing, reporting, and file auditing are others. Various studies have indicated that copy data can consume as much as 10X the space consumed by…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hammerspace, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Webinar: What’s Your 2019 NVMe Strategy?

Posted on November 16, 2018 by George Crump

The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…

Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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SlideShare: Evolving Data Protection from Backup to Copy Data Management

Posted on November 16, 2018 by George Crump

Copy Data Management promises to not only improve the data protection process, it promises to provide value to the organization even without a looming disaster. It can reduce storage costs by presenting virtual copies of data to test/dev, analytics and…