As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
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The Problem with Software Defining Consolidation
One of the challenges with storage sprawl is managing all the different islands of storage. Physically separate storage systems can be more difficult to manage. This is especially the case if they’re from different vendors, since each system has a…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Migration, QOS, ROI, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl
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Don’t Forget Data Protection When Selecting Cloud Providers
The cloud is good at availability and data durability. If there is an outage cloud providers have an excellent track record of getting their services back online quickly and providing access to the latest copy of data. What if though,…
Storage vs. The Software Defined Data Center
The goal of a software defined data center (SDDC) is to enable an organization to leverage standard hardware to reduce costs and leverage intelligent software to increase flexibility by dynamically defining the data center as the needs of the application…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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Storage Consolidation Requires Cloud Archive
Managing one of something is usually easier than managing five of something. Indeed, when it comes to storage systems, it is easy to manage one vast storage array than it is five to ten individual ones. Consolidated systems focus much…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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eBook: The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist
Businesses of all types are increasingly finding themselves in midst of a high performance computing (HPC) environment. This commercial HPC environment though is different from traditional HPC environments found in academia. The demand for business to manage their own HPC…
The Evolution of Ransomware – Is Backup Safe?
When ransomware first appeared in data centers, it had a simple attack pattern. Once it landed inside the data center, the malware tried to encrypt every file as fast as possible. If IT didn’t have good backups, the organization was…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, Snapshots
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GDPR is for Everyone – Why All Businesses Need A Data Privacy Policy
Many IT Planners look at the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a distinctly European problem. The reality is the GDPR and regulations like it, impact businesses around the world. GDPR impacts any business that does business…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Retention, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Decisions the Enterprise Must Make When Considering Cloud Backup
In our first column we discussed what cloud providers needed to provide to make the enterprise more comfortable with using the cloud for backup. In this entry we discuss how to choose the right cloud provider and give an example…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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The Myth of NoSQL Data Protection
There is a debate circling the topic of NoSQL data protection. A common myth is that because these environments automatically create replicas, data protection isn’t needed. Replicas protect the NoSQL environment from a hardware failure within a node or even…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Deduplication, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO
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