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Any Cloud Strategy Requires Understanding On-Premises Workloads

Posted on June 13, 2018 by George Crump

Is a Cloud First Strategy Right for IT? The cloud is a resource that most data centers are trying to factor into their future IT planning. Early adopters have found though that not all their workloads work properly, or at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Virtual Instruments
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Enterprises, You Want Object Storage But Not For Objects

Posted on April 13, 2018 by George Crump

The industry has been espousing the merits of object storage for years now and cloud providers have been quick to adopt the technology. The enterprise, on the other hand, is more cautious, partly because the object storage alternative, Network Attached…

Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, file sync and share, Flash, Hadoop, HDD, IoT, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Utility vs. Solution – What’s Best for Enterprise Cloud Migration?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by George Crump

When IT needs to get something done once, or just occasionally, software utilities are a quick and easy way to accomplish the task at hand. Sometimes though, IT needs something more, a solution that will become part of the data…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, VM
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NVMe Details & Capabilities

Posted on March 27, 2018 by George Crump

The next step in all-flash performance is NVMe. Systems equipped with NVMe support promise to increase performance and lower latency. But, IT professionals want to know if their data centers can take advantage of NVMe and how they should plan…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Fabric, FC, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, ISCSI, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-F, SAS, Scale-Out, SCSI, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization, VM
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5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of data protection is to protect the organization from outages. The scope of these outages can impact an application, a server, a storage system or an entire data center. IT faces the challenge of restoring the most recent…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dev/ops, Encryption, Hybrid, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, ROBO, SLA
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Machine Learning, AI and IoT have a File System Problem

Posted on March 1, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data applications are increasingly IO hungry. It’s a problem that impacts not only the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market, but also the traditional enterprise as they start initiatives like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT). In…

Tagged with: AI, Data Direct Networks, DDN, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, HPC, Hybrid, IoT, Machine Learning, Metadata, NVMe, Replication, Scale, Unstructured data
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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…