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HCI 2 Stays Simple

Posted on January 28, 2019 by George Crump

One of the promised benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is simplicity coming from the convergence of computing, networking, and storage into a single tier and from the ease of scale by “just adding a node.” Half of the promise is…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in to Maximize the Value of SDN

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Proprietary network architectures and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) brought to the table functionality that was foundational in enabling the development of the Internet. However, for a number of reasons, a more open and standards-driven approach to networking is necessary…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, IBN, Migration, NOS, Open Networking, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Empowering Business Modernization with Consumption-based, Intelligent Disaster Recovery

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Application development and delivery modernization, stricter IT service level agreements (SLAs) that come with increasing pressure from the business, and massive data growth have a ripple effect across the IT infrastructure market. For the storage market, these requirements mean that…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, Veeam
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Eliminating Stub Files for a Better Archive

Posted on January 23, 2019 by George Crump

The case for archiving is beyond compelling. Most organizations don’t access data once it is older than 90 days. In most cases, inactive data can consume 85% or more of the organization’s primary storage capacity. Moving inactive data to secondary…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Does NVMe Flash Mean the End of SAS Flash?

Posted on January 17, 2019 by George Crump

Before NVMe, most flash systems were either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based. In all-flash arrays, SAS was the preferred protocol because of its higher bandwidth and ability to support multi-port connections. NVMe is the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, SATA, Western Digital
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How Data Centers Can Implement Open Networking Now

Posted on January 17, 2019 by George Crump

The use of Open Networking promises operational value, data center flexibility and a reduction in the cost of network infrastructure. Next Generation SDN (Software Defined Networking) promises automation, increased agility and a reduction in operational costs of data center networking…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, IBN, Migration, NOS, Open Networking, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Virtualization
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HCI 2.0 Delivers Enterprise Class Performance

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

One of the initial appeals of hyper-converged infrastructure is its use of commodity hardware which in theory lowers costs. The reality is that most commodity hardware isn’t able to fully utilize high-performance CPUs, internal connectivity and high-performance NVMe media, which…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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Is the Cost of Switching Backup Solutions Worth the Cloud Gains?

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations look to change data protection software for a variety of reasons. Two of the most popular involve the cloud; cloud backup storage and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). There are many problems though with switching software and the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Protection Service Levels – Sometimes OK is OK

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

In my last blog “The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels” we looked at how to design a gold service level for data protection and what the pros and cons of that approach are. In this entry, we look…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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eBook: Are You Evolving Your Unstructured Data Management Strategy?

Posted on January 14, 2019 by George Crump

Unstructured data is changing. What was once a relatively small data set made up mostly of user home directory data is now a massive data set that is proliferating and is made up of much more than just user data.…