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Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Creating a Cloud Strategy for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data is a growing problem for enterprise organizations. An increasing number of these companies have file counts in the billions and storage capacities over 1PB. These organizations are looking to the cloud to help mitigate some of their unstructured…
Skip the Disk – Send Backups Straight to Tape
All restores are not created equal, even during a disaster. The reality is that IT should not recover most mission critical systems from a backup of any kind (flash, disk or tape). Instead, IT should recover these critical systems from…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration
During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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The Ultimate Tape Advantage – Cold Offsite Storage
One of the biggest advantages to integrating tape media into the backup infrastructure is the door it opens for the organization to leverage cold offsite storage. As we’ve discussed throughout this series most data occupying capacity on a disk backup…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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When is it Time to Move to NVMe?
Most major storage vendors are now delivering Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based All-Flash Arrays. Initially, most of these arrays use NVMe drives internally but connect to the storage network via standard network protocols like SCSI over Fibre Channel. A few…
Comparing the Price of Disk-Only Backup to Tape Integrated Backup
As discussed in our last blog, tape, when correctly integrated into the disk architecture, does not negatively impact the performance of the backup infrastructure. In fact in some cases tape improves it while also providing a more efficient, more reliable…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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Where Did All the NAS Vendors Go?
In 2010, there were almost a dozen major NAS vendors on the market. Today, the market has shrunk, ironically at a time when organizations need unstructured data storage solutions more than ever. The primary reasons for the shrinking of the…
Is it Time to Rethink NAS for Unstructured Data?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems were once the primary storage destination for all unstructured data but with file-counts soaring past one billion and with machines replacing users as the primary creators of data, the industry is seemingly moving past NAS…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, Unstructured data
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Comparing the Performance of Tape Integrated Protection to Disk Only Protection
When vendors compare the performance of disk backup systems with the performance of tape, they often will highlight the area in which their particular product has the biggest advantage and ignore situations where performance doesn’t matter. IT planners looking to…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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