When IT needs to get something done once, or just occasionally, software utilities are a quick and easy way to accomplish the task at hand. Sometimes though, IT needs something more, a solution that will become part of the data…
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Utility vs. Solution – What’s Best for Enterprise Cloud Migration?
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, VM
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SlideShare: NAS Refresh? – 5 Reasons to Consider the Cloud
Storage refreshes are something that every data center goes through. However, the most painful are NAS refreshes. It is not just the painful migration of data from the old NAS to the new NAS but also the tedious process of…
Why the Cloud Breaks Backup
For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Data Protection is the Key to Hyperconverged Adoption – HYCU Briefing Note
Most HCI systems are first purchased to be the platform for a specific greenfield project within an already busy data center. The goal is to expand HCI use as new projects come online or old ones are ready for IT…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Purpose Built, Recovery
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What Went Wrong with Enterprise File Sync and Share – MyWorkDrive Briefing Note
Sometimes IT vendors are guilty of answering questions that no one is asking. Such is the case with enterprise file sync and share (EFSS). For the most part, users just want to share office files with other colleagues and occasionally…
Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, File Share, FS&S, GDPR, MyWorkDrive, NAS, Remote, Silo, TCO
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3 Reasons Why Networking Breaks HCI Scalability
One of the most appealing aspects of hyperconverged Infrastructures is their ability to scale. When IT needs more compute or storage resources to keep up with their rapidly growing enterprise, they are told to “just add a node”. There is…
Webinar: SDS is Broken – And How to Fix it
Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to take the data center by storm, sweeping IT professionals off their feet on the way to storage management bliss. But, most SDS projects are never actually started or abandoned long before they reach…
Tagged with: HDD, NVMe, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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Paper: 3 Steps To Ending The Primary Storage Nightmare
The next step in all-flash performance is NVMe. Systems equipped with NVMe support promise to increase performance and lower latency. But, IT professionals want to know if their data centers can take advantage of NVMe and how they should plan…
Webinar: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It
IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
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Solving NAS Migration Pain – Komprise 2.7 Briefing Note
Every few years an organization needs to purchase a new network attached storage (NAS) system. The old system either has reached its capacity limits or no longer meets the performance expectations of new users and applications. The options for a…
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