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…
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Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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Obtaining More Cost-Effective Splunk Queries with SmartStore
Version 7.3 of the Splunk Enterprise machine data analytics and visualization platform is now available, and with it will come enhanced, more enterprise and production-grade support for Splunk’s SmartStore capability. This is significant because SmartStore stands to greatly lower the…
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Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 1: Business and IT Disconnect
Data analytics has become table stakes for competitive differentiation. As a result, businesses require their analytics-driven insights as quickly as possible. The reality is, however, that queries often take weeks or even months to complete. One of the key logjams…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
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How to Prepare for Site-Wide Disasters
It used to be that natural disasters, such as major hurricanes, were arguably the worst thing that could happen to the enterprise from an IT continuity perspective. Practically speaking, nothing else could really result in a site-wide data center failure.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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How to Avoid Cloud Pitfalls to Obtain an Infrastructure-Less Backup Strategy
Meeting requirements for infinite data retention and always-on business continuity is, practically speaking, not possible without using cloud resources in some way. On-premises backup and disaster recovery infrastructures are fraught with unpredictable costs and heavy operational overhead. At the same…
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How to Facilitate Rapid Recovery
It’s no secret that rapid recovery is a non-negotiable business requirement today. Very few applications can stand even moments of downtime, never mind hours. However, getting there requires multiple steps that are not always immediately clear. The first step to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SLA, StorageCraft, VM, VMware
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How Do I Prepare for PCIe Gen 4?
2019 will be the year that new CPUs and motherboards supporting the fourth generation of the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface (PCIe 4.0) will come to market – meaning that new storage systems using the interface are also on…
Actifio Data Driven 2019 – What is Digital Transformation and How Do I Get There?
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about digital transformation and the need to harness data for competitive advantage. What we don’t spend enough time talking about is what that actually means in terms of business objectives,…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Applying the 3-2-1 Backup Rule to Self-Protecting Primary Storage
Primary storage has two key functions, to deliver data as fast as possible to the applications and users requesting it, and to maintain data accessibility in the event of a hardware failure. Primary storage vendors have attempted to expand their…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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Understanding the Azure Hybrid Cloud On-Ramp
Most organizations approach the cloud without a formal strategy. They pick a pain point, like backup and disaster recovery, as a starting point with the hope of adding more services as they become more cloud savvy. What often happens, however,…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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