With ransomware, unlike almost any other form of disaster, there is an alternative to recovering from backups…pay the ransom. While one can argue the risk associated with paying a ransom, the organization may see it as a viable option. IT…
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What to do if Ransomware Strikes a Physical System
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware
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The Challenges of After-The-Fact Encryption
Encryption is a foundational component of a cyber-secure storage system. The problem is that most organizations implement encryption after-the-fact, months if not years after the initial implementation. When IT is considering a new storage system, they tend to focus on…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, RackTop, Replication, Retention, SED, Snapshots
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ChalkTalk Video: The SSD Matters
Consumer and Enterprise SSDs, from outward appearances, all look the same. As a result, organizations are sometimes tempted to use consumer SSDs in enterprise use cases or get the least expensive SSD possible. In this ChalkTalk Video, Storage Switzerland’s Lead…
Lightboard Video: Overcoming The Risk of Virtualizing Tier 1 Workloads
Organizations virtualize more than just standard applications, today businesses mandate the virtualization of mission critical applications like SAP, SAS, Oracle and MS-SQL. Placing these performance dependent applications in a virtualized environment could potentially risk inconsistent performance because they now share…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Machine Learning, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, VMworld2018
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Designing an All-Flash Data Management Strategy
Thanks to decreasing flash media pricing and data efficiency technologies like deduplication, all-flash arrays are now commonplace in many data centers. In most cases though, the purchases of first generation all-flash arrays were to solve a specific performance problem. Now…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Tegile, Western Digital
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ChalkTalk Video: Key Architecture Requirements for Tackling Hadoop and NoSQL Backup and Recovery
NoSQL and Hadoop typically distribute data through the use of built-in replication technology. The replication process also provides protection from media or server failure. Many IT professionals, as a result, think that they don’t need to backup these environments. In…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, VMworld2018
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ChalkTalk Video: Managing Secondary Data Globally
Secondary data continues to grow at an unprecedented pace and organizations are increasingly using that data for purposes beyond backup and archive. IT needs a way to visualize, manage and take action on their secondary data and applications. Organizations also…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication, VMworld2018
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ChalkTalk Video: On-Premises All-Flash as a Service
One of the advantages of the cloud is organization’s can start a new project with minimal capital outlay. The problem is that as that project matures and moves into production the cost and ability to control the cloud become issues.…
Tagged with: Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE, VMworld2018
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ChalkTalk Video: Computational Storage With In-Situ Processing
What is Computational Storage? It only takes a few NVMe flash drives to saturate a server’s PCIe Bus. Network those NVMe flash drives and the situation only gets worse. Computational Storage solves the problem by placing compute capabilities directly on…
Tagged with: Computational Storage, Encryption, Flash, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, PCIe, SSD, VMworld2018
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ChalkTalk Video: Simple, Affordable and Reliable Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery has been a long time challenge for IT Professionals and Senior Executives. In this session George Crump and Clint Wyckoff with Datrium discuss how to intelligently respond to disaster scenarios with simple application-level DR orchestration. You’ll also walk…
Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Docker, Flash, HCI, Hyper-converged, SaaS, SQL, VMworld2018
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