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Making a Hybrid Array Work for the Enterprise
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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More than Migration: Developing a Holistic Cloud Strategy
Most organizations are considering how to take advantage of the tremendous resources made available by the cloud. The first step for many of these organizations is to create a cloud migration strategy. As part of this strategy, the organization decides…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas
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Creating a Real-time Storage Network
Traditionally, systems create data, process it, and then store it for a time before accessing it again in response to a user request. Essentially, data is processed in batches. In the modern data center, the move is toward real-time analysis…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, DAS, FCoE, HCI, Hyperscale, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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What Happens When You Push the DRaaS Button?
In case of a disaster, a traditional cloud backup application needs to transfer all data across limited internet bandwidth and back to the data center or the new location. The bandwidth restrictions make cloud recovery a time consuming process that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist – Item 3 – Protection at Scale
Most storage systems provide several layers of protection. At a minimum, there is protection from media failure, typically delivered by some form of parity based protection scheme. In enterprise systems, it is also common to have built-in redundancy in both…
The Architectures behind Cloud Storage
Each of the major cloud providers deliver at least three different types of cloud storage; high performance, archive and cold storage. Each of these storage types share the pay-as-you-go cloud expectation but each differ in terms of cost and performance.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, NFS, Object Storage, ROI, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, StorONE
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The Top 5 Reasons VMware Backups Still Break
Lack of Auto-Discovery Lack of auto-discovery is an issue for most backup solutions. As virtual machines and physical hosts are constantly being added to a VMware environment, many backup applications can’t auto-discover them. This means a new VM can go…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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The Math Behind Storage Architecture Design
The speed at which the data center is evolving is forcing IT to sacrifice proper storage architecture design. IT is just trying to keep its head above water; it doesn’t have time to swim. This reality leads to a primary…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Object Storage, ROI, Tegile, Western Digital
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Securing Backups from Ransomware
Ransomware “developers” know that organizations are likely to count on their backups as a primary point of recovery if they are infected. As a result, these malware programs attempt to encrypt or disrupt backup operations. Other cyber attacks may even…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, Replication
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How is Storage IO Different for AI vs. HPC?
Most Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects start off as a skunkworks project that when ready for production is tossed over the wall for IT to handle. In many cases, IT tries to store the AI workload on an existing network attached…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, WekaIO
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