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Why Self-Protecting Production Storage at the Edge?

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are relying more and more on edge data centers to collect and process critical data in real time. Increasingly, edge data centers require bare metal-levels of performance – but at the same time, these important data streams must be…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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eBook: Doing More with Splunk Data…For Less

Posted on July 15, 2019 by George Crump

Enterprises use Splunk because it derives insights from information that organizations already have. It is clear that the more information that is available to the environments the more valuable the applications are. Ideally, organizations want to store all data relevant…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Struggling with Data Privacy? Consider Intelligent Data Management

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Regulations have proliferated beyond a concentration in a single industry (such as the financial community) or geographical region (such as Europe). Companies do business globally, and the importance of data is causing new regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Axellio’s FabricXpress All-NVMe Server for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

A Validated Hybrid Strategy for the Most Demanding Environments The hybrid cloud is the nirvana that most enterprises are chasing. The problem is that most enterprises have not been able to standardize their infrastructure for centralized management. In a previous…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HDD, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, SSD, Veeam
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What Constitutes a Complete Data Protection Platform?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Endpoint protection has frequently been treated as an expensive hassle that is not worth it. However, for a number of reasons, organizations can no longer risk leaving employees’ laptops, tablets and other devices unprotected. The major concern is that data…

Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
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Meet Application Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Without Breaking Your Storage Budget

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Effective application performance management (APM) is fundamental to business success. Businesses are relying on applications for differentiated end customer experiences, smoother internal collaboration, and for innovation. Fundamental to making sure that business critical applications are running smoothly (i.e. they are…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, TCO, Virtualization, VM
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What’s Changing in Backup Software?

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Today’s business environment is always-on and can tolerate no delays, and data is at the heart of these requirements. Data must be accessible the moment it is needed. At the same time, business analytics and regulations such as the California…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Cloudian, file sync and share, Hybrid, Metadata, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam
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Rethinking Your Data Governance Strategy for Compliance

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

In today’s era of regulations, the role of archive and long-term retention data is changing dramatically. No longer can data simply be shipped off to a “cheap and deep” repository with the hope that it will never need to be…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Breaking Backup with SaaS

Posted on June 27, 2019 by George Crump

Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…