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…
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What is Scale-Out NVMe?
The first step for NVMe flash is to use them internally in servers and storage systems. However, there is another aspect of NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-F) that promises high-speed communication between devices and also promises a new way to…
Meeting the Core Principles of Data Protection
As the data center modernizes, new initiatives and trends are impacting the data protection process. In our webinar, “5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018,” we discuss how things like Hybrid IT, Ransomware, application explosion,…
Tagged with: Cloud, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Micro Focus, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot
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The Big Fail – Why is Enterprise File Sync and Share STILL Failing?
A recent Forrester survey indicated that 56% of enterprise respondents either have implemented an Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) solution or are in the process of installing one. At first glance, that looks good for EFSS vendors. However, on…
Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem
Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: How to Design Primary Storage for GDPR
As member countries turn the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law, vendor’s are focusing on secondary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery. But what about primary storage? Is it possible to architect a primary storage system…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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How Will All-Flash Need to Change to Support NVMe?
There are three points within the storage infrastructure that will use NVMe; internal to the storage system, intra-connectivity between storage systems and inter-connectivity to physical servers. The first point of adoption will be in the storage system itself. As vendors…
Disaster Recovery Planning – How to Get from Good To Great
A “great” DR plan is one that addresses one of the biggest concerns that organizations have over the disaster recovery process. “Will it work?” Getting a copy of data to the cloud is the beginning of a great DR plan…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Replication, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Replication, RTO, Virtualization
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High Availability vs. Instant Recovery
All applications in a data center are critical to some degree, and while there are a few applications that are mission-critical, most applications can be down for at least a few minutes without seriously impacting the organization. The problem is…
Understanding the Data Center Trends That Will Impact Data Protection
The data center keeps evolving, and each new trend that comes into the data center impacts the data protection process in some way. Trends like the shift to hybrid IT, cyber-threats, the explosion in the number of mission-critical applications, the…
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