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Is the Data Center Ready for Flash Archives? – Nimbus Data Briefing Note
Archiving, as a concept, looks great on paper. It alleviates primary storage capacity, simplifies data protection and lowers overall storage cost. The problem is when it is necessary to search for and retrieve data in that archive, or worst case…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archiving, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Nimbus Data, SSD, Tape
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Creating a Cloud Extension Instead of a Cloud Migration Strategy – Nexenta Briefing Note
As data centers consider the role cloud compute and storage will have in their organization’s IT strategy, they look for solutions to extend what they already have, not solutions that require them to start over in the cloud. One of…
Tagged with: Block, Cloud, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, Nexenta, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, SMB, Unstructured data
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5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018
The goal of data protection is to protect the organization from outages. The scope of these outages can impact an application, a server, a storage system or an entire data center. IT faces the challenge of restoring the most recent…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dev/ops, Encryption, Hybrid, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, ROBO, SLA
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SlideShare: Flash to Flash to Cloud – Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night: How to keep up with application performance demand How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store How to protect that data so…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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Protecting The Data-Driven Organization – Imanis Data Briefing Note
Most organizations make decisions based on data. In recent years, the amount of data that these organizations can access to help make those decisions has exploded. More data, though, won’t help unless the organization can analyze that data. It became…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, DAS, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Migration, NAS, NoSQL, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, SAN
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Creating a Tape Exit Strategy – BridgeSTOR Briefing Note
While one can argue the pros and cons of a tape exit decision, no one can argue the fact that organizations are making that decision every day. If an organization decides to eliminate tape from its data protection strategy it…
Unstructured Data’s Compliance and Retention Gap
In most data centers, unstructured data now consumes more storage capacity than all of the organization’s structured data combined. Yet organizations still often treat unstructured data like a second-class citizen when it comes to data protection. Because of its size…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note
Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, LTO, Object Storage, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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End-User Acceptance, Priority 1 for Enterprise Endpoint Backup
There are a lot of excellent reasons to deploy an enterprise-wide data protection strategy and at the top of the list is protecting users from Ransomware. One of the critical challenges, though, to successfully deploying an enterprise-wide endpoint backup strategy,…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LTE, Malware, Ransomware, Replication, Virtualization
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