In theory, organizations can grow and shrink their public cloud footprint on demand. But, the reality is that most don’t, they only scale one-way, up. The typical process is that IT provisions a set of resources for a given workload…
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The Problem with One-Way Cloud Scaling – FittedCloud Briefing Note
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, FittedCloud, Machine Learning, Object Storage, Optimization, VM
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Why Scale-Up Architecture Breaks Backup
The backup architecture will likely store 5 to 10 times the amount of data that the primary storage system holds. Additionally, organizations are looking to use backup data for far more than just an insurance copy of data. They want…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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SlideShare: 3 Steps to Controlling the Secondary Storage Deluge
Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem – Elastifile Briefing Note
Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Migration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage
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How to Solve VMware Problems, Not Just Knowing About Them – Runecast Briefing Note
Troubleshooting is a big part of the VMware Administrator’s job description. The problem is that most troubleshooting is a reactive process where something has to break before IT leaps into action. The situation gets worse because after a problem has…
Tagged with: Hyperconverged, Migration, Runecast, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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The Hub Problem with Distributed Backup
Protecting data at remote offices and distributed data centers is challenging to say the least. Typically, organizations try to implement backup locally by installing a backup server and some disk or tape. IT then tries to manage the process remotely…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM
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What is IO Acceleration? – JetStream Software Briefing Note
Flash’s first deployment in the data center was often as a cache implementation. A cache is a staging area that holds a small amount of the most recently accessed data. Caching software enables active data to be accessed from flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Cloud, Flash, IO Acceleration, JetStream Software, Migration, NVMe, Replication
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Webinar: Five Steps To Lowering Your Storage Costs Without Sacrificing Performance
Storage today, especially high performance production storage, costs too much. The cost of production storage forces customers to make compromises with their data so that the purchase will fit into their budget. The cost problem defies reality. Storage, both in…
Tagged with: Capacity, HDD, NVMe, performance, ROIQ, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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Webinar: 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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Hyperconvergence is NOT Backup
One of the riskiest claims a vendor ever makes is “we’ve eliminated the need for backup” and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors make this claim frequently. Good data resiliency is not good backup, and in fact, some of the work that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hybrid, NFS, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots
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