The speed at which the data center is evolving is forcing IT to sacrifice proper storage architecture design. IT is just trying to keep its head above water; it doesn’t have time to swim. This reality leads to a primary…
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The Math Behind Storage Architecture Design
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Object Storage, ROI, Tegile, Western Digital
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Securing Backups from Ransomware
Ransomware “developers” know that organizations are likely to count on their backups as a primary point of recovery if they are infected. As a result, these malware programs attempt to encrypt or disrupt backup operations. Other cyber attacks may even…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, Replication
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How is Storage IO Different for AI vs. HPC?
Most Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects start off as a skunkworks project that when ready for production is tossed over the wall for IT to handle. In many cases, IT tries to store the AI workload on an existing network attached…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, WekaIO
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True WAN Optimization is not Deduplication – Bridgeworks Briefing Note
The four walls of the data center no longer confine users, applications, and data. Organizations are multi-site, and users want to work from anywhere. Making “work from anywhere” a reality still requires data and data still has gravity. Data has…
Tagged with: Bridgeworks, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Latency, Redundancy, WAN
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Next Generation Networks Are Faster
The modern data center is very demanding of its network infrastructure. Next-generation networks need to be more than fast. They also need to be smarter and provide deep insight. Speed seems like an obvious requirement, but there is more to…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC-NMVe, LAN, Machine Learning, networking, Next Generation, NVMe, NVMe-F, Virtualization, WAN
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Cyber-Secure Storage Requires More Than Encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of building a secure storage system, but organizations need more than just encryption. Encryption works when the outside attacker can’t authenticate themselves, but if the outside attacker can compromise a user or admin account, then…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, RackTop, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
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Current Data Protection Infrastructure Is Broken
Some of the more sizeable shifts in the data center include the move from Mainframes to Open Systems and network computing, the move to client-server computing, and the move to a virtualized server infrastructure. Each of these shifts spawned several…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide
Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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SlideShare: Three Steps to Multi-Vendor Storage Excellence
Most data centers have given up on the idea of a single storage system for all the organization’s workloads. Organizations have decided to buy storage systems that solve a specific problem. The multi-vendor storage environment does have some advantages. Individual…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, MySQL, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Virtualization, VM
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Do You Need to Protect Cloud-Native Applications?
One of the forgotten elements of migrating an application to the cloud is protecting that application and its data. There sometimes is an assumption that the cloud automatically protects itself and for natural disaster protection, that assumption is correct. Most…
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