In a recent blog, we discussed how scale-up architectures break backup, forcing customers into expensive and disruptive forklift upgrades. Scale-out architectures are the logical solution to the scale-up challenge. But, scale-out architectures create problems of their own. IT planners need…
High-Performance Computing (HPC) used to be limited to universities and government agencies, now though industries of all types are leveraging HPC for big manufacturing, in-depth analysis, sophisticated modeling and VFX rendering. However, commercial organizations don’t have the time for erector…
Hybrid IT means that data is both on-premises and in the cloud. Increasingly it also means that IT needs to distribute data across multiple sites within the organization and move data between various cloud providers. Hybrid IT is an attempt…
Many Cloud NAS solutions leverage a local cache to get around the latency problem when retrieving data from the cloud. If the requested file is on the local cache the user will notice no performance difference than before they had…
It used to be that organizations consolidated all data into one location. All a disaster recovery planner had to do, which was still no easy task, was get that data backed up and get a copy sent to an off-site…
Like other software defined initiatives, software defined networking (SDN) abstracts the networking operating environment from the hardware switches and controller. The SDN promise is to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by managing a set of physical top of rack…
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors have gotten into a bad habit of claiming that once an organization implements the HCI solution, they no longer have to worry about backup. While there are components of HCI, (snapshots and replication), that do help…
Hybrid IT moves workloads and their data to and from a variety of remote locations, secondary data centers, and cloud to meet the demands of a data-driven organization. Hybrid IT enables organizations to achieve the best possible outcome from being…
Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…
According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…
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