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…
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Cloud NAS vs. Large Files – How Cloud NAS can Win
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…
Hybrid IT Changes Disaster Recovery
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…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Replication, SaaS
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What is Software Defined Networking?
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…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, ROI, SDN, SDS, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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ChalkTalk Video: HCI is Not Backup
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…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Endpoint, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, NAS, Replication, Snapshot
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Is Data Protection Ready for Hybrid IT?
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…
SlideShare: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks
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…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Endpoints Break Backup
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…
Hardware Defined All-Flash Arrays for a Software Defined World – Storbyte Briefing Note
While software-defined storage (SDS) captures the attention of the market, enterprise IT professionals know that the hardware still matters. The problem is that while a multitude of SDS solutions have come to market the hardware selection pool is essentially limited…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, ASIC, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, SDS, SSD, Storbyte
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The 5 Steps to Intelligent Data Management
Organizations are creating and capturing more data than ever. Creating and capturing data though is just the starting point. Organizations need to leverage that data to drive better outcomes. Most organizations use brute force to manage this data, which is…
Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Encryption, Hyper-Availability, Intelligent Data, IoT, Provisioning, Ransomware, Veeam
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