It is easy to assume that all SSDs are created equal. The reality is there are two distinct types of SSDs. One set is created for the client market and the other for the data center. The use cases between…
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Designing Backups for Data Privacy and Ransomware
Two external factors are forcing organizations to rethink their backup process and how they store backup data. The first is the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, which encrypts production data forcing the customer to pay for a “key” to decrypt it.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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The Advantages of a Diverse Storage Architecture
In the last three blogs, we’ve looked at how IT might consolidate storage by purchasing a single large array and using software-defined storage or using hyper-converged infrastructure. While each option has potential, each option also falls short in some areas.…
Tagged with: Flash, HCI, IOPS, Migration, NAS, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl, VDI
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How to Create a Secure End-to-End Storage Infrastructure
Security breaches are a constant threat to organizations, and while securing primary storage is a top priority another challenge is making sure data is secure as various processes copy it. Organizations copy data for many legitimate reasons; backup, test-dev, and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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Navigating the Performance Marketing Hype for True Flash Value
For years, the storage industry has hailed the advent of the all-flash data center. With growing pressure from lines of business to obtain more sophisticated and real-time analytics for competitive advantage, with declining price points and increasing density of solid-state…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Big data, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Scale, Snapshot, SSD, Thin provisioning, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
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Backup Endpoints So You Can Wipe Them
One of the best reasons to backup endpoints like laptops, tablets and smartphones has nothing to do with restores, it has to do with deletion. Endpoints are the most vulnerable to theft. They are left in airport security lines, Starbucks…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Demo, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration
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Accelerate NAS Performance Differently – Metadata Acceleration
To address file performance problems most IT professionals are directed to the latest all-flash array and are forced to migrate to a new storage system. Even if those IT planners insist on keeping their current network attached storage system, vendors…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, Flash, infinite io, InfiniteIO, Metadata, Migrate, NAS, Object Storage, SSD, Virtualization
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HYCU for Google Cloud Platform
HYCU for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a native Google Cloud service designed to protect applications running in the Google Cloud. The software is available directly from the Google Marketplace. Instead of developing its own mechanisms for protecting data, HYCU…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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Archive is Better than Backup
For decades data center best practices were to isolate backup and archive. “Backup is not archive” was the mantra. The reality is most data centers ignored the mantra and used their backup process for all of their data retention. Today,…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Your Data Center is Talking to You – Can You Understand it?
Data centers not only store and process the organization’s data they also create a lot of data on their own. Every device in a data center is logging its actions and activity about what it’s doing, what is accessing it…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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