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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The GDPR Effect – Why US Businesses Need to Pay Attention

Toward the end of May, companies worldwide sent out emails informing customers of updates to their data privacy policies. These emails were in response to something called GDPR, which stands for the General Data Protection Regulation. It is a European

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What is the Value of Hybrid Flash in an All-Flash Era?

When flash storage first became viable for the enterprise, it was also very expensive. Early devices where low in capacity as well. Hybrid systems overcame these two shortcomings by mixing hard disk and flash technologies. These systems added the capability

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