Disaster Recovery, for most organizations, used to mean making sure that a handful of mission-critical applications were protected and able to be brought back online in the event of a data center failure. The data center of today has changed…
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The Changing Scope of Disaster Recovery
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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SlideShare: Data Management vs. GDPR and Data Privacy – How to Solve the Right to Be Forgotten Problem
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) makes specific demands on organizations based in and doing business in the European Union (EU). Now several US states are considering similar legislation and California has already passed a GDPR-like law. Clearly this is…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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The ROI of a Flash and Object Storage Architecture
The flash+object storage architecture creates a cost effective, two tier storage architecture in the data center. It enables IT to better meet performance demands of applications and the retention demands of unstructured data. Ideally the organization can reduce the size…
How to Prevent Data Leaks in a Collaborative World – MyWorkDrive Version 5 Briefing Note
Collaboration and Data Leak Prevention (DLP) seem to be at odds with each other. Collaboration requires sharing data and it seems like copying that data to a sharing service is the only viable alternative. The only way IT can protect…
Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Data Leak, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, MyWorkDrive, VPN
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Delivering Storage for Web-Scale IT in the Enterprise – Excelero Briefing Note
A web-scale data center needs to scale to support thousands if not millions of users. Web-scale application use cases range from traditional transactional IT to modern data analytics and machine learning workloads. It also includes new advanced video applications and…
Disaster Recovery with Cloud as Primary Storage
The first blog in this series discussed initially using a Cloud as Primary Storage solution for data protection and then in the second blog in the series, transitioning to using the Cloud as Primary Storage to store production data. In…
Webinar: 2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?
Join Storage Switzerland, Caringo, Cloudian and Scality, for a roundtable discussion on Object Storage. Learn what you need to know to develop a strategy for object storage. Our panel of experts discuss what object storage is, what is better/different about…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Why SDN Should be Part of Your Cloud Strategy
Organizations are incorporating public cloud resources into their deployment strategies. The organization may have a cloud-first initiative, or it may use the cloud as determined by the workload but the reality is that an overwhelming number of organizations deploy in…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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A Collective Hive for HCI – Maxta MxIQ Briefing Note
Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) simplifies many things for busy IT professionals. As their environment grows, HCI automatically scales with it, adding performance and capacity with each additional node. However, an area where HCI falls short, along with many other storage systems,…
Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, VDI, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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What Ever Happened to the Software Defined Data Center?
About a decade ago, VMware introduced the vision of a software-defined data center (SDDC). Unlike data centers of yesteryear, a software-defined data center was supposed to leverage intelligent software and commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that could…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hypervisor, IOPS, Machine Learning, NVMe, Object Storage, SDDC, Software Defined, Thin provisioning
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