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How is Consumption-based IT Different than Cloud Services and Leasing?
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, SLA, Veeam
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Optimizing Storage Capacity and Performance with Smarter Metadata Management
It has been long acknowledged in the storage industry that two-thirds or more of data that sits on primary storage arrays is inactive. Storage managers hesitate to archive more data, due to the concern that an urgent request for the…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Why Data Protection-as-a-Service is Unpredictable
Economic unpredictability is the most significant challenge associated with data protection. The pool of data that must be protected continues to grow exponentially, and meanwhile, recoveries must be nearly instantaneous. Our previous blog discussed the challenges inherent in meeting these…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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The Impact of Unpredictable Data Protection
Most production IT projects are planned months, if not years, in advance of deployment. However, advanced planning of infrastructure upgrades for the data protection architecture seldom occurs. The problem is that updates to the backup infrastructure can often be expensive…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Fixing Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hybrid Cloud Storage is ideal for most organizations seeking to reduce the cost of their storage infrastructure and to leverage computing resources in the cloud. The problem in fully enabling a hybrid cloud storage strategy is the latency between on-premises…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, infinite io, InfiniteIO, Latency, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage
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The Future of HCI: 2019 Edition
The hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market has entered a new phase of maturity, as evidenced by recent technology developments as well as vendor consolidation. For IT professionals, this maturity has two significant takeaways. From a technology perspective, HCI brings a compelling…
In Memoriam – Jon Toigo – The Master of Disaster
Last week a legend in backup, disaster recovery, and data storage passed; Jon Toigo. My first foray into storage was thanks to Jon. His 1989 book on disaster recovery launched me into the world of data protection and high availability.…
Optimizing Storage Costs and Performance while Enhancing Planning with Resource Monitoring
Storage managers face the demanding task of maximizing storage infrastructure capacity, performance and availability, while also reducing or at least slowing the growth of storage-related capital and operating expenses. Storage array vendors are innovating to increase performance, uptime and utilization,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Balance Standardization and Flexibility to Optimize DRaaS
The need for disaster recovery is growing as always-on data availability becomes necessary for business continuity. For many organizations, bypassing the expense and hassle of purchasing, deploying and managing dedicated disaster recovery infrastructure through outsourced disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) makes sense.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Cyber Attack on VFEmail Evaporates 18 Years of Data!
In what may be one of the most devastating attacks in recent history, email provider VFEmail is working through the aftermath of a massive cyberattack and is indicating that 18 years’ worth of its user’s email data is lost forever.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fuji, Fujifilm, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, VM
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