Enterprise backup is at times a behemoth. While it does provide the data center a foundational level of protection, the solutions tend to be slow to adopt new environments and too heavy-handed to solve specific feature requests. As a result,…
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Rethinking the Role of Enterprise Data Protection – IBM Briefing Note
Tagged with: Analytics, Data recovery, Data Reuse, IBM, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtualization, VM
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How to Design Storage for Commercial HPC
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and commercial data centers used to be two distinctly separate entities, but now businesses of all types are conducting HPC-like operations. These organizations have large amounts of unstructured data that they need rapid sequential access to for…
The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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What is Tape as a Service?
Tape should be a critical component of every data center. As a medium, it is cost effective and easy to transport. It also provides diversity as an offline alternative media choice to hard disk based technology. The problem is that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Iron Mountain, Malware, Migration, Recovery, Tape, Tape as a Service
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Paper: How to Design a High Performance, Cost Effective and Secure Storage Infrastructure
There are plenty of expectations for production storage systems. Users want it fast, managers want it cost effective, and executives want it secure. Additionally, the system has to protect data from hardware failure, software bugs, and user mistakes. Meeting all…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Software Defined
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White Paper: How to Reduce Secondary Storage Infrastructure Size and Cost
Secondary storage does more than just store backups. It also serves as storage for archive data, IoT data and support copy data use cases like test development and reporting. As a result, the infrastructure requirements for secondary data have grown…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, IoT, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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How to Turn Email into Knowledge – MailJive Briefing Note
In the digital age, organizations have countless ways in which they can communicate, but email remains the most popular. Email though is used for far more than just communication. The organization, rightly or wrongly, uses it to store documents, contact…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Encryption, Email, HTTPS, MailJive, Retention, SSL
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What Type of Cloud Provider Do You Need?
IT’s impression of the cloud has evolved over the past few years. Most IT professionals see the cloud not as a competitor but as another tool in the IT toolbox. Like any other tool, when used in the right circumstances…
Mergers and Data Protection – The Cost of Doing Nothing
One of the most significant challenges when two organizations merge is what to do with the data protection process. In all likelihood, before the merger, each organization had its data protection practices and policy. The overwhelming tendency is to do…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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The Three New Requirements of Unstructured Data Protection
Unstructured data has been a part of the data center since there were data centers. However, over the last decade, unstructured data has fundamentally changed. What was once data consisting of office productivity documents created by users is now data…
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