In our on demand webinar, “2019 Storage Strategies Series – What’s Your Plan for Object Storage?” one of the key points of discussion will be about the cloud. Most cloud providers have a tier of storage built from object storage…
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Object Storage Vs. The Public Cloud – Friend or Foe
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality, Strategic, Unstructured data
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Designing a File Storage Infrastructure – CTERA Briefing Note
The combined value of files that an organization creates and stores is higher than its most mission-critical applications. The ability to collaborate, share and retain files both within and outside the organization dictates how competitive that organization is in its…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, file sync and share, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Orchestration is Key to Cloud Disaster Recovery
The cloud is an ideal location from which to execute a disaster recovery. It eliminates the need for a secondary DR site and the processing power required by recovered applications because the organization purchases cloud storage and compute at the…
Do You Need to Re-Prioritize Unstructured Data Management Priorities?
In our on demand webinar “The Elephant in the Data Center – Protecting, Managing and Leveraging Unstructured Data”, Storage Switzerland and Igneous discuss the recent 2018 State of Unstructured Data Management report. The report is available as an attachment to…
Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Can Your Service Levels Keep Up With the Application Explosion?
The method that IT uses to protect applications is changing. Gone are the days of three or four mission critical applications. Today the backup team at most data centers needs to concern itself with protecting dozens if not hundreds of…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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What’s Your Backup Retention Policy?
What is the default retention policy for your backups? If you are like most organizations we speak to, the answer is typically three or more years. The next question is why, as in why is your backup retention so long?…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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What are the Best Use Cases for Object Storage?
As part of our “2019 Strategies Series”, Storage Switzerland hosted a panel discussion “What’s Your Plan for Object Storage”, to help organizations create and implement an object storage strategy. Experts from Caringo, Cloudian and Scality joined Storage Switzerland for a…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloudian, file sync and share, GDPR, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Scality
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An Endpoint Strategy is More Than a Backup Strategy
Endpoints are a growing concern for enterprises, more employees have them (most have two or three), users store more data on them than ever (30% of that data is unique) and the data on these endpoints are within the scope…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication
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Scale-Out Storage: The Advantages of Replication vs. Erasure Coding
Scale-out storage systems tend to protect data from media failure in one of two ways; they either use replication or erasure coding. Replication creates a user-defined number of copies of data, typically a minimum of three, as it is created…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS
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NEW! Exclusive Insight on Storage, SDN, SDS, and The Cloud
Subscribers to Storage Switzerland’s Newsletter now have access to our exclusive analysis of recent news and trends within the storage software-defined data center as well as the cloud. The report is sent out (almost) daily to subscribers and provides analysis…
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