Organizations today deal with daunting storage challenges. To handle the ever-increasing deluge of data, they need the ability to scale-out storage to handle multiple terabytes and millions of files. They also face the need to upgrade their Windows File Servers…
Over the last decade, the modern data center has evolved into a complex, virtualized environment that hosts many different types of applications ranging from legacy applications to new next-gen applications, while also struggling to securely store, manage, and monetize the…
Organizations have always struggled with the cost and complexity of maintaining sufficient storage for all their data. Instead of getting better, the problem just gets worse. Those of us who have been in IT for longer than a decade probably…
Then and Now Over the last decade, organizations have experienced massive changes in the data center and the storage industry. Workloads found in modern data centers today are vastly different from what was common back in the days of dedicated…
Possibly the most onerous challenge an organization can face is litigation, whether the legal challenge is against another entity or from an individual, another organization or a government agency that is mounting a legal challenge against the organization. The resulting…
As my colleague George Crump discussed in his article on disaster recovery as a service, “Introducing DRaaS 2.0”, there are a number of compelling advantages in using DRaaS solutions. However, regardless of the cost savings and other advantages when organizations…
Modern organizations continue to face an uphill battle as they struggle to meet the challenges of storing ever-growing amounts of unstructured data while also cost effectively managing their distributed storage environment. Many organizations are now moving data and operations to…
