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What is a Multi-Cloud Data Controller?

Posted on September 20, 2018 by George Crump

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

Posted on September 20, 2018 by George Crump

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

Posted on September 20, 2018 by George Crump

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

Posted on September 19, 2018 by George Crump

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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Creating Flow for Successful Disaster Recovery – NAKIVO Briefing Note

Posted on September 19, 2018 by George Crump

Nakivo 8 – Disaster Recovery Workflow Many backup and replication software solutions claim to help organizations recover from a disaster but just as backups are more than copying data from point A to point B, disaster recovery is more than…

Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Replication, RPO, VM, VMware
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The First Step in Cloud DR is Cloud Backup

Posted on September 18, 2018 by George Crump

“It’s not about backup, it’s about recovery” is a common statement from the marketing departments of backup software suppliers. A recovery can’t be performed without a quality copy of the data. Cloud storage’s low cost and automatic off-site capabilities as…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Replication, Veeam
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Using the Cloud Data Fabric for Migrating Applications to the Cloud

Posted on September 18, 2018 by George Crump

A key component of most organization’s cloud strategy is migrating applications to a cloud provider to reduce dependence on on-premises infrastructure. The organization may want to host the application entirely in the cloud, use the cloud as a failover point…

Tagged with: CDF, CIFS, Cloud Bursting, Cloud Data Fabric, Encryption, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Replication, SMB, SoftNas
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Why Cloud Backup Doesn’t Work for Enterprises and How to Fix it

Posted on September 18, 2018 by George Crump

Protecting the enterprise remains a big challenge facing data centers. Backup touches and interacts with almost every component of the data center, and in the enterprise where there are more of those components; the chance for failure is high. At…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, Replication, SaaS
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Webinar: Data Management vs. GDPR and Data Privacy – How to Solve the Right to Be Forgotten Problem

Posted on September 17, 2018 by George Crump

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 Future Data Center – Live from Hitachi Next!

Posted on September 17, 2018 by George Crump

What comes after Data Center Modernization? The future data center is smart. But what is a smart data center, how do you create a smart data center and why would you want to? We answer all of these questions on…