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What’s Your Backup Retention Policy?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

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?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by George Crump

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

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Krista Macomber

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

Posted on November 20, 2018 by George Crump

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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The Anatomy of the Copy Data Problem

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Countless IT processes count on copies of data. Backup is an obvious example, but test/dev, analytics processing, reporting, and file auditing are others. Various studies have indicated that copy data can consume as much as 10X the space consumed by…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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What to Look For in a Modern Storage Network

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Krista Macomber

Legacy storage network architectures can’t keep up with the scale and performance requirements of modern data sets and workloads such as the Internet of Things (IoT) analytics, creating the need for transformation to support new business demands. Fibre Channel is…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash Array, CISCO, FCoE, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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Is File Sync and Share OK for Endpoint Backup?

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

A surprising number of organizations and users consider their file sync and share (FSS) solution to be a suitable replacement for backup. With an FSS solution if a user accidentally deletes a file the FSS service can provide the user…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Demo, Disaster recovery, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, file sync and share, Infrascale, Migration, VPN
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Dashboarding Diverse Storage Infrastructures

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

The previous blog in this series outlined the advantages of a diverse storage infrastructure; flexibility, workload specific performance, and hard-cost savings. The challenge with a diverse storage infrastructure is how to manage it. In prior blogs, we’ve looked at several…

Tagged with: Flash, HCI, IOPS, Migration, NAS, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl, VDI
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Protecting Against Departing Users

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

One of the top ways that data “leaks” out of an organization is through the endpoints (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) of departing users. IT should, of course, do what it can to prevent data leakage, but it also should make…