When presented with all the potential capabilities of the cloud, almost any IT professional can be overwhelmed, especially when all the potential risks are factored into its use. At times like these it is best to simply take a step…
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Cloud in your Business – Where to Start
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Data Protection, File server, file sync and share, Hybrid, Nasuni
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How to Beat Dropbox
Almost every laptop I see has Dropbox installed on it. It’s easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and works 99% of the time. Users love it, but Dropbox does have its problems. First, it removes data out from under the control…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Dropbox, Enterprise, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Protection
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Analyst Blog: Do you have a Private Cloud or Just Virtualized Servers?
IT in companies of all sizes is facing competition from the cloud. Based on a self-service, automated provisioning model, public clouds enjoy efficiencies and economics that few corporate data centers can match today. But internal IT has a distinct advantage,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Converged, Data Protection, Flash, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, JBVS, performance, SME, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution
If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015
Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid Cloud, Service Level Objective, SLO, Storage Decisions, TechTarget, Test/Dev
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Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems
Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…
Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
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What’s causing the Copy Data Explosion
Remember back when companies had copy machines in every department? Making copies was a tedious exercise that probably wasted more paper than anything else. But for the IT department, creating copies (data copies) is a far more serious problem, one…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Does Post Process Deduplication have a Role in the Future of Deduplication
In a recent article “The State of Deduplication in 2015” we took a look at how deduplication is impacting the data center. Deduplication continues to change how data protection is performed and it is dramatically changing primary storage, most notably…
Analyst Blog: Why Cloud File Sync and Share is not Backup
In a recent briefing note we discussed the need for backing up cloud-based productivity applications, also called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), such as GoogleDocs, Office365 or SalesForce.com. People often assume that because these services are storing their data in the cloud, that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, SaaS, Software as a service
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