At some point every IT team ventures out on a mission to consolidate its storage assets. Over the years the organization probably has created a collection of systems that do a variety of tasks ranging from systems for high-performance storage…
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Why Data Management is Failing
Data management companies are struggling to gain adoption. These companies offer to save customers money by moving data to the most appropriate tier of storage based on current needs. The thought is to have only a small fraction of data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Disaster recovery, GDPR, Migration, Object Storage, ROI
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How to Improve Recovery Confidence
Almost every recent survey done on the state of backup indicates a very low level of confidence in an organization’s ability to recover in the event of a disaster. There are three reasons for this result. First, the management may…
Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Recovery, Recovery Objectives, Unitrends, Unstructured data, Virtualization, VM
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Can Hyperconverged Work in the Enterprise?
Hyperconverged architectures have an enterprise problem because while they start off simple enough, as they scale they becoming increasingly complex and waste resources. Storage capacity and performance are particularly difficult to use efficiently. Also, intra-networking, when there are a dozen…
How to Protect a Global VMware Environment
Most enterprises have not virtualized their data center; they have virtualized their data centers (plural). The software most organizations choose as their virtual foundation is VMware. Protecting a multi-site VMware environment has unique challenges that IT needs to address. Three…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Recovery, TCO, Virtualization, VMware
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Six Things Your Boss Needs To Know About DRaaS
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), the ability to outsource an organization’s recovery site, typically to the cloud, is rapidly gaining in popularity. The executive team may assume the solution can do no wrong and encourage IT professionals to pursue…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, SDN, Software Defined, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Considering Hyperconverged for Your Enterprise? Three Key Questions to Ask
Over the last few years, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments have been on the increase. HCI combines server, storage and networking into a single system building block, however, it introduces many new complexities into your environment. Listen as Storage Switzerland and…
White Paper: Is Your DR Plan Ready for 2018?
When was the last time you looked at your disaster recovery plan? The beginning of a new year is an excellent time to review it and make sure it is ready for changes within your data center, and changes to…
Tagged with: Backup, Block Level, CDM, Cloud, dr, Ransomware, Recovery, Retention, Unitrends, Unstructured data, Virtualization, VM
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Reshaping the Storage Technology Landscape – Kaminario Briefing Note
The storage industry isn’t changing; it is reshaping. What is the difference? If the industry were changing, it would be its choice to change, driven by internal motivations. Instead, outside influences are reshaping the industry. What are the primary drivers…
Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, dr, Kaminario, NVMe, NVMe-F, Replication, SAS, SDDC, SDS, SSD
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Why Don’t Cloud Backup Solutions Leverage Cloud Compute?
The first iterations of cloud backup solutions were designed primarily to protect individual consumer laptops. Those solutions evolved and eventually were scaled to protect an organization’s laptops. The next logical step was to use the cloud for server and virtual…
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