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VMware Storage Challenges
VMware storage challenges are the limiting factor in how thoroughly organizations adopt it. Learn what they are and how to fix them.
The Problems Using Array-Based Replication for VMware DR
Array-based replication may seem ideal for IT professionals looking to improve their disaster recovery (DR) strategy. It sends an off-host copy of data to a remote site without installing special software in the hypervisor. However, array-based replication is expensive and…
Minimize VMware TCO Triggers
When looking for a VMware alternative, you need to move beyond low prices and look for a solution to minimize VMware TCO triggers. VMware Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) triggers are challenges or needs that come up during the use…
How to Extend the Life of IT Infrastructure
As budgets continue to tighten, IT leaders are trying to figure out how to extend the life of IT infrastructure so they can reduce spending. At the same time, you must keep up with demands for improving performance and meeting…
The HCI Resource Efficiency Problem
As IT attempts to scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), they realize the impact of the HCI resource efficiency problem. The selling point of HCI solutions is that they scale by “just adding a node.” Each node brings a fixed amount of…
Reducing Backup Costs Requires Invincible Primary Storage
The cost of the backup infrastructure consumes a large portion of the IT budget. Reducing backup costs requires invincible primary storage that can protect itself. An invincible primary storage system also needs to provide all the services that IT typically…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Enterprise Storage Platform, RAID, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, StorONE
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It’s Not If Backup Software is Using Cloud Storage, it’s How
Almost every backup solution on the market today claims some form of cloud storage support. IT planners need to understand what type of cloud storage their backup solution provides and if the architecture of the solution can genuinely take advantage…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cloud Mirroring, Cloud Only, Cloud Tiering, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snaphots, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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What is Purpose-Built Backup?
Consolidation of backup hardware and software is perpetually on the mind of IT professionals. At some point, a well-meaning IT Manager initiates a consolidation effort to try to simplify backup operations by consolidating backup hardware and software onto a single…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, HCDP, Hybrid, HYCU, Hypervisor, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, TCO
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The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service
The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
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