When ransomware first appeared in data centers, it had a simple attack pattern. Once it landed inside the data center, the malware tried to encrypt every file as fast as possible. If IT didn’t have good backups, the organization was…
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The Evolution of Ransomware – Is Backup Safe?
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, Snapshots
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Solving the Software Defined Storage Bottleneck – Mellanox Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts commodity storage hardware so that it can be used in a scale-out architecture, but this can create a bottleneck between the CPU and the storage media. In many cases, the latency of hard disk drives…
Tagged with: Cloud, CPU, Flash, Mellanox, NVMe, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, Virtualization
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GDPR is for Everyone – Why All Businesses Need A Data Privacy Policy
Many IT Planners look at the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a distinctly European problem. The reality is the GDPR and regulations like it, impact businesses around the world. GDPR impacts any business that does business…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Retention, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Decisions the Enterprise Must Make When Considering Cloud Backup
In our first column we discussed what cloud providers needed to provide to make the enterprise more comfortable with using the cloud for backup. In this entry we discuss how to choose the right cloud provider and give an example…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Software Defining Secondary Storage – Quest QoreStor Briefing Note
Secondary storage systems primarily store backup and archive data. These systems often store ten to twenty times the capacity of primary storage systems. Vendors realize the opportunity and are now flooding into the market. Most of the solutions are turnkey…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Encryption, MS-SQL, NFS, Quest, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Software Defined, VM
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The Myth of NoSQL Data Protection
There is a debate circling the topic of NoSQL data protection. A common myth is that because these environments automatically create replicas, data protection isn’t needed. Replicas protect the NoSQL environment from a hardware failure within a node or even…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Deduplication, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO
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What is a Multi-Cloud Data Controller?
Multi-Cloud is real, most organizations have multiple cloud relationships and plan on maintaining them. Even AWS CEO Andy Jassy said in a recent Wall Street Journal Interview, “There will not be only one cloud…but rather a handful of large cloud…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality, SMB, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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A Step-by-Step Path to Full Cloud Utilization
The Use Cases for a Cloud Data Fabric The cloud data fabric (CDF) allows organizations without a cloud pedigree to take full advantage of cloud storage and compute resources. The CDF also enables the organization to move to the cloud…
Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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How Object Storage Makes a Hybrid Array Better
In our last blog, Storage Switzerland discussed how a hybrid array, with a properly sized flash tier, could provide similar performance to an all-flash array while substantially reducing costs. The next step in storage architecture design is to use the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, Scalability, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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Solving the Flash Density Pipes Problem
The density of flash storage is increasing every year, 64TB solid state drives (SSD) are arriving next year, and within a year the data center may see 100TB+ SSDs become commonplace. Another significant change is that the data center, thanks…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Storage, Hyper Converged Storage, Hyper-scale, IoT, Machine Learning, NGD Systems, NVMe, SSD
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