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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Posted on August 20, 2019 by George Crump

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?

Posted on August 19, 2019 by George Crump

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

Posted on August 14, 2019 by George Crump

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?

Posted on August 14, 2019 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Axellio, ClearSky, Druva, Edge-Now, Flash, Hyperconverged, Nasuni, Nutanix, OPEX, S1aaS, Scale, StorONE
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What’s the Hole in Your Ransomware Protection Strategy?

Posted on August 12, 2019 by George Crump

Over on the Aparavi Blog, Vicki Grey cited a recent study by The Herjavec Group, which indicated that ransomware attacks are on the rise. The report also states that ransomware attacks hit businesses every 14 seconds in 2019, and will…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, SaaS, Unstructured data
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Why Aren’t You Tiering Backup Data to the Cloud?

Posted on August 7, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations tend to treat all backup data the same. Generally, IT stores backup data on a relatively low performing, high capacity disk backup system. The problem is that this type of device doesn’t fit the restore requests that most IT…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Veeam, Virtual machine
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How Has Ransomware Changed Data Protection?

Posted on August 6, 2019 by George Crump

The ransomware threat can have a significant monetary impact on the business. Not only are enterprises forced to pay the ransom fee to recover their data, but under various government regulations they also may be charged additional fines per impacted…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud

Posted on July 31, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud is a hot topic right now in IT circles. Instead of being locked into a single cloud, organizations can shift workloads between clouds as needed. Multi-cloud enables them to receive the best pricing possible on cloud services and resources.…