Object Storage dominates the unstructured data discussion. But many organizations need high performance NFS, SMB and even Apple’s AFP to meet the demand of various use cases in markets like M&E, Science, HPC and Oil and Gas. The more traditional…
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High Performance NAS in an Object World – Rozo Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, RAID, Rozo, Scale-Out, SMB
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Look Before You Leap into DRaaS – Scale Computing Briefing Note
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves a lot of problems for IT professionals trying to prepare their organizations to survive a disaster. At the same time, though, it also creates new challenges that need to be resolved prior to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DRaaS, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, SMB, VM
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SlideShare: DRaaS – It’s Not Just For Disasters Anymore
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions have vaulted to the top of the considerations list for organizations looking to improve their ability to recover from major disasters like hurricanes and floods. But DRaaS solutions are not just for recovery…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery
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Software vs. Hardware Replication
As discussed in our last entry, replication is an ideal way for most organizations to meet the data protection and data recovery demands of their mission critical applications. But there is a choice that IT needs to make when selecting…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Replication, Retention, Software Defined, VM, VMware, WAN
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How to Protect Mission Critical Applications
While they should only represent a small percentage of your environment, mission critical applications need the most attention when designing a protection process for them. Most of these applications can only be down for a few minutes and can only…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, dr, Mirroring, Ransonware, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, VM, VMware
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Can the Cloud Get IT Archiving?
The ROI of an archive project sounds good on paper. Implement archive, get near instant recalls of moved data, and reduce storage footprint by 85% or more. The problem is no archive implementation really does that. In our latest white…
How to Use Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage for Object Storage Backup
An on-premises object storage solution is a versatile data platform for enterprises that can be used to archive old data to and used as a backup target and even replace some NAS use cases. But one of the challenges with…
How to Develop a Holistic Cloud Data Management Strategy – Actifio Briefing Note
Many organizations have identified the public cloud as an important tool in their data protection and data management strategies. Vendors are quick to jump on this interest. The problem is most of the solutions vendors provide are fairly myopic and…
Tagged with: Actifio, Archive, Backup, Cloud, DRaaS, Object Storage, Redundancy, VM
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How to Move YOUR Cloud To THE Cloud?
Many IT professionals consider their VMware infrastructure to be a private cloud. While not true self-provisioning, it provisions compute and storage resources much faster than in the past. Public cloud providers like Amazon and Azure have almost unlimited quantities of…
Minor Disasters Need Major Attention
The scope of a disaster is based on its sphere of influence. A major disaster impacts a wide region and causes hundreds of businesses to go into disaster recovery mode. A minor disaster impacts only a single organization and often…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery
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