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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.…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Data Privacy

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

Data privacy came sharply into view in 2018 when in May the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. The data protection components of the regulation are challenging enough, but GDPR added a new wrinkle, “the…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, file sync and share, GDPR, Hot2019, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Latency Hurdle – Hybrid Cloud Storage Workarounds

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

When organizations attempt to create a hybrid cloud storage architecture to manage costs better and ease on-premises storage requirements they face a significant hurdle, dealing with the latency between on-premises storage and cloud-based storage. The transfer of files between these…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Does NVMe Flash Have to Mean Featureless Flash?

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

The primary goal of the NVMe standard is to reduce latency. It accomplishes this by leveraging the PCIe interface and increasing both command counts and queue depth. NVMe Flash Systems however, are more than just the flash media. Vendors create…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, FC, Flash, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, SAS, Snapshot, Western Digital
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The Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

Public Cloud Storage solves many of the challenges facing IT planners as they try to address the rampant growth of data within their data centers. Storing this ever growing quantity of data is causing problems for both primary and secondary…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Does NVMe Flash Have to Be End-to-End

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

One of the advantages of the NVMe Flash standard is that it is networkable. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMf) brings direct attach storage like latency to shared storage systems. NVMf eliminates the need for modern applications like Hadoop and others to…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HBA, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMf, Replication, SAN, Snapshots, Western Digital
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What’s Hot in Storage in 2019 – Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Posted on January 7, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) leverages virtualization to converge three common data center tiers; computing, networking, and storage, into a single tier. It promises to simplify operation and ease expansion while also lowering material costs. A key component is the storage software…

Tagged with: HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, NVMe, SDN, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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What is HCI 2.0

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

On paper, hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) look like the perfect solution to most organizations’ IT woes. While the first generation of HCI solved organization’s point problems like virtual desktops and Tier 2 virtual workloads, they lacked the power and efficiencies required…