It is easy to assume that all SSDs are created equal. The reality is there are two distinct types of SSDs. One set is created for the client market and the other for the data center. The use cases between…
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Designing Backups for Data Privacy and Ransomware
Two external factors are forcing organizations to rethink their backup process and how they store backup data. The first is the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, which encrypts production data forcing the customer to pay for a “key” to decrypt it.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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The Advantages of a Diverse Storage Architecture
In the last three blogs, we’ve looked at how IT might consolidate storage by purchasing a single large array and using software-defined storage or using hyper-converged infrastructure. While each option has potential, each option also falls short in some areas.…
Tagged with: Flash, HCI, IOPS, Migration, NAS, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl, VDI
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How to Create a Secure End-to-End Storage Infrastructure
Security breaches are a constant threat to organizations, and while securing primary storage is a top priority another challenge is making sure data is secure as various processes copy it. Organizations copy data for many legitimate reasons; backup, test-dev, and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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Using Machine Learning to Eliminate Data Center War Rooms – Virtual Instruments Briefing Note
According to Dimensional Research, over 60% of enterprises experience two or more significant application performance issues per month. In the modern data center, most users equate poor performance the same as application downtime. Performance issues, though, are usually much harder…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Machine Learning, Object Storage, Silos, SLA, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Understanding the AWS Data Protection Market – Cloud Daddy Briefing Note
Organizations should keep a backup of applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unlike on-premises applications where the primary concern is disaster recovery, the primary motivation for protecting cloud-native applications is recovery from cyber-attacks, rogue users or application faults. Each…
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Treat, dr, Replication, Retention, Snapshot, Snapshots
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Enabling a Multi-Cloud Reality – Scality Zenko Briefing Note
Most organizations today, whether they realize it or not, are already multi-cloud. They may be using one cloud to host cloud-native applications, another cloud to store backups of on-premises data, and using software as a service (SaaS) offerings, which may…
Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scality
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Modernizing NAS Instead of Replacing It – Qumulo Briefing Note
Organizations are almost universally struggling with storing and managing their unstructured data. From a storage system perspective, vendors offer legacy NAS systems, object storage systems and cloud storage services, all trying to convince IT professionals that they are the best…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, Qumulo, SAS, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Application Explosion – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Protection Service Levels
The number of applications in organization’s data centers is growing rapidly. No longer does IT need to worry about a few mission and business critical applications, it needs to worry about dozens. While all these applications are important to the…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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SlideShare: How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for less than $95,000!
All-Flash Arrays are the model of inefficiency and as flash media increases in density and performance, the cost of this inefficiency becomes more obvious. Enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) deliver 70,000 IOPS per drive but most AFAs need 24 drives or…
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