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What is Next-Generation Copy Data Management?
Copy data management (CDM) stands to save enterprises significant time and money and at the same time enhance disaster recovery. CDM software works by capturing a “golden master” copy of production data, and then creating and orchestrating the presentation of…
Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, CDM, Copy Data, Data Privacy, Data Protection, eDiscovery, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Tired of Backup Storage Capacity Planning? Look to the Cloud
As recently discussed by Stephen Aldous, Principal Product Manager for Carbonite, and George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, backup purchases are difficult to budget for and are often an afterthought. Additionally, backup infrastructure typically jumps from periods of underutilization, to…
Is Scaling Splunk Stressing Your Architecture? Evaluate SmartStore
The need to solve data problems at scale is arguably the most prominent storage driver today — whether hardware, software or cloud services. In this regard, Splunk is quickly becoming a textbook use case. Splunk is an application that analyzes…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, EC, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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What is the Best Way to Store Inactive Data?
In today’s data deluge, it is a challenge for IT professionals to get a comprehensive and confident grasp on all of the data that their organization is storing – never mind how that data is actually being used. The reality…
Solving the New Storage Performance Problem
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) flash drives thrust storage media from the position of the worst performing component of the data center to the best. The technology’s low latency however, exposes other bottlenecks that went previously undetected. The new storage performance…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Analyst Opinion – Time to End Cloud Egress Fees
One of the most common complaints from organizations that have moved at least some workloads to the cloud is the unpredictability of cloud billing, specifically as it relates to egress fees and transactional IO fees. Egress fees are the price…
How to Avoid Cloud Backup Pitfalls
Data protection becomes more challenging as enterprises become more distributed. Data is distributed across core and edge data center environments, and on and off-premises applications and infrastructure resources. This data must be readily accessible by users regardless of their location…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, RPO, RTO, SLA
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Is NVMe Enough for Efficient Hyperscale Data Centers?
Hyperscale architectures typically sacrifice resource efficiency for performance by using direct attached storage instead of a shared storage solution. That lost efficiency though, means the organization is spending money on excess compute, graphics processing units (GPUs) and storage capacity that…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
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How to Make Data Archiving Easier Than Expanding Primary Storage
Most IT professionals will admit that most of their data is inactive and hasn’t been accessed in years. Storage Switzerland finds that over 80% of the data in most data centers falls into this category. There are viable solutions to…
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