Disasters rarely strike at a convenient time, like when recovery polices are all up to date, and when there are plenty of IT staff on hand to deal with any issues that may come up. In most cases, the opposite…
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Why DR Orchestration is a Must Have
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Why VMware Storage is STILL a Problem
Most VMware storage solutions attempt to fix storage pain points with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. While the sledgehammer approach does solve or at least mask some VMware storage problems, many still remain. More importantly, the life of the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Making the Hybrid Cloud Work for Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is already taking advantage of the cloud, but most of the workflows have been rendering, simulation or other ephemeral use cases. The advantages of using the cloud for more permanent project tasks though should…
Streaming Recovery vs. In-Place Recovery – Which is Better?
Server recovery from backup typically means copying data from the backup device over the network back to a production storage system or server. In addition to copying the data across the network, the backup software has to extract it from…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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Silos of Clusters – Is this the End Result of Data Center Modernization?
Applications like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow typically operate on scale-out architectures built from dozens, if not hundreds of servers, which act as nodes in the application’s cluster. Many organizations now use a mix of these applications to derive the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF
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New eBook: Hyperscale Performance, Is NVMe Enough?
Hyperscale architectures that support Elastic, Hadoop, and Kafka, often vary wildly between organizations and even within each organization. Each workload often needs its own cluster and IT teams are constantly trying new technology within those clusters, trying to improve performance.…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF
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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud
Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud tend to be the direction that most organizations are heading with their cloud strategy. The problem is the path to both of these cloud strategies is full of unexpected twists and turns. What is Hybrid-Cloud? While these…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Egress Fees, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Replication
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What is the State of Software Defined Storage?
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts the storage software from the storage hardware. It sounds great on paper and looks great on the whiteboard but in execution it fails to impress. Storage Switzerland finds that the large majority of customers still…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, dr, Migration, NVMe, OPEX, PCIe, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Backup Retention vs. Data Retention
A recent blog “Healthcare overspends on long term backup retention” by Veeam’s Jonathan Butz discussed how healthcare organizations are creating overly complex and expensive backup infrastructure because they are considering backup as part of their records retention policy. Butz is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Retention, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Are You an Edge-Now Data Center?
We often think of edge data centers as a remote data center that an organization deploys to process a local data set in order to subsequently send that data set, or not, to a larger, primary data center. An example…
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