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Disaster Recovery Planning Getting From Bad to Good

Posted on February 26, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery, at its most basic, is making a copy of data and securing that copy off-site. Unfortunately, it is details like how long can the organization afford to be without the application and how much data can the organization…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Replication, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Replication, RTO, Virtualization
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2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide

Posted on February 6, 2018 by George Crump

Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…

Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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How to Prevent a Cloud Migration Boomerang

Posted on January 24, 2018 by George Crump

Recent studies indicate that as many as 50% of cloud migrations need to move back into the data center. While there are many reasons for this boomerang effect, lack of data consistency is one of the most common. The CAP…

Tagged with: Avere, CAP, Capacity, Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale
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Why Backup is Breaking Hyper-Converged Infrastructures and How to Fix it

Posted on January 16, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is to simplify how to apply compute, network and storage resources to applications. Ideally, the data center’s IT needs are consolidated down to a single architecture that automatically scales as the organization needs…

Tagged with: Backup, Comtrade, dr, HCI, Hyper-convergence, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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Putting the Wheels Back on Your Data Center Modernization Project

Posted on January 4, 2018 by George Crump

Most Global 2000 IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers feel like the wheels have come off their data center modernization project. The goal was to create an environment that can respond to the needs of thousands of applications simultaneously and automatically.…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, APM, Data modernization, FC, Flash, IP, IPM, Silo, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization, VM
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Never Obsolete Without the Green

Posted on December 11, 2017 by George Crump

Recently, storage vendors started to promote a concept of evergreen storage. Essentially, the vendor will swap out the customer’s storage hardware with the latest, more capable hardware at some point in the maintenance contract. The problem is this swap-out is…

Tagged with: Coraid, Flash, Migration, SAS, SATA, Scale-Out, SCSI, SDS, SSD
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Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger

Posted on November 2, 2017 by George Crump

Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…

Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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How to Manage Data Without Putting it in Jail

Posted on November 1, 2017 by George Crump

Data growth requires a response. For some organizations, that response is upgrading to a more scalable higher performing NAS or an on-premises object storage. For others it is moving some data sets to public cloud storage. Historically, these migrations are…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, ROI
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It’s Hard Out There for a Pump: The Changing Nature of Content Storage and Delivery

Posted on October 30, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Content distribution and delivery systems, historically referred to as video pumps, have a much more complicated job than ever before. While technology is enabling streamlining of some operations, it is also increasing customer expectations of anytime, anywhere availability. How the…

Tagged with: ABR, Analog, Celluloid, Concurrent, Digital, Encoding, Flash, FTP, NFS, Replication, S3, SAS, SATA, SMB, SSD, Streaming Data
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Ceph: Roll Your Own or Turnkey?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Ceph offers an open source storage alternative to those who need object, block, and file services. Initially developed at UC Santa Cruz and funded by a number of government agencies, Ceph has grown into a very interesting solution for a…