The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) forces organizations to evolve from a data protection mindset to a data management mindset. IT can no longer let backups store data on secondary storage as giant blobs of ones and zeros. The process…
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Creating a Data Privacy Protection Architecture
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Object Storage or Cloud for Enterprise File Sync and Share
Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) is a “must deliver” for IT since most users perceive the capability to be a “must have”. In our last blog we discussed what to look for in an EFSS and explained the advantages…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Collaboration, Cyber Attack, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, SME
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Making NoSQL Protection Operations Driven – Imanis Data Briefing Note
It seems like backup vendors forgot about protecting NoSQL environments. Environments like Cassandra, MongoDB, Hortonworks, Couchbase, and Hadoop all need point-in-time protection. One reason for the lack of data protection solutions for these environments is that there is an assumption…
Tagged with: Corruption, GUI, Imanis Data, NoSQL, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Scale-Out
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Does All-Flash Array Software Improve Performance?
The raw performance of a single enterprise flash drive is often higher than 70,000 IOPS. Most all-flash arrays, even though vendors fill them with 12 to 24 flash drives, deliver only a few hundred thousand IOPS. The cause of the…
Office 365 Delete Items Folder – Isn’t 24,855 days enough?
A question that came up on our on demand webinar “Next Question: How to protect Office 365” was “Can’t I just use the Deleted Items Folder?” The deleted items folder does help prevent some data loss. Microsoft Office 365 allows…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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Modern Data Protection Architectures Enable a Step-by-Step Cloud Journey
The cloud holds much promise for data protection, but support for the cloud varies depending on the solution. Traditional backup applications and appliances have, at best, rudimentary support for the cloud. They may only mirror the on-premises copy of data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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Making Storage for AI and DL Turnkey – DDN – NVIDIA Briefing Note
When an organization moves Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) projects from the test and design phase to production, the responsibility for maintaining that project often lands in IT’s lap. IT then has to put together an architecture that…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, NVIDIA, NVMe, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage
The cloud should be a valuable ally in helping organizations eliminate backup infrastructure and increase their disaster recovery (DR) confidence. The reality is that current cloud backup and DR solutions fall short because they don’t fully exploit cloud resources. Most…
SlideShare: Why Cloud Migrations Fail – Learn the Keys to Cloud Success
Many cloud migration and cloud first strategies fail to live up to expectations. The problem is organizations spend too much time on micro issues like product selection and not enough time on big picture items like the cloud strategy’s foundation.…
Public Clouds Provide Storage Tiers – Why Doesn’t Storage Software Support it?
Public cloud providers all have at least three tiers of storage to offer their customers. They often offer a high-performance tier for cloud native applications, a tier designed for active but not as performance sensitive, unstructured data sets and a…
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