This year, and for most of this decade, data centers will be dealing with the cloud, containers, and copy data. Using the public cloud is top of mind for every organization, but using the cloud intelligently and developing a strategy…
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Lightboard Video: How to Lower the Cost of Backup Infrastructure
The cost to store backups on-premises is already a significant expense for data centers to endure and the rapid growth in unstructured data is pushing budgets to the breaking point. Cloud Storage, because of its low cost and infinite scalability,…
Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Creating a Ransomware Recovery Plan in 2020
In 2020, planning, preparing, and practicing for a Ransomware Recovery should be job #1. The Problem with Ransomware Recovery Predicting that ransomware is going to impact organizations during the coming decade is like predicting that it is going to be…
Tagged with: Baas, Backups, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Encryption, IaaS, iland, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery
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Lightboard Video: Maximizing AI Performance with Dedicated Infrastructure
High-Performance Computing (HPC) and scalable Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads typically use parallel file systems to make sure that all the computing nodes in a cluster can directly access the data they need without being bottlenecked by control nodes. Organizations running…
Designing Shared Storage for Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka, TensorFlow
As analytics environments like Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka and TensorFlow continue to scale, organizations need to find a way to create a shared infrastructure that can deliver the bandwidth, flexibility, and efficiency that these environments need. In a recent Storage Intensity…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI
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The Requirements of AI at Scale Storage Infrastructures
Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale raises the bar for storage infrastructure in terms of capacity and performance. It is not uncommon for an AI or machine learning (ML) environment to expect growth to dozens if not hundreds of terabytes of…
StorageSwiss Report 64 – A Decade’s Worth of Predictions
The StorageSwiss Report is a weekly discussion about hot trends and topics going on in the storage, cloud, and data protection markets. We don’t just cut & paste press releases. We provide insight as to why or why not the…
It’s Not If Backup Software is Using Cloud Storage, it’s How
Almost every backup solution on the market today claims some form of cloud storage support. IT planners need to understand what type of cloud storage their backup solution provides and if the architecture of the solution can genuinely take advantage…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cloud Mirroring, Cloud Only, Cloud Tiering, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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What is Purpose-Built Backup?
Consolidation of backup hardware and software is perpetually on the mind of IT professionals. At some point, a well-meaning IT Manager initiates a consolidation effort to try to simplify backup operations by consolidating backup hardware and software onto a single…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, HCDP, Hybrid, HYCU, Hypervisor, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, TCO
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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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