With ransomware, unlike almost any other form of disaster, there is an alternative to recovering from backups…pay the ransom. While one can argue the risk associated with paying a ransom, the organization may see it as a viable option. IT…
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What to do if Ransomware Strikes a Physical System
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware
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The Challenges of After-The-Fact Encryption
Encryption is a foundational component of a cyber-secure storage system. The problem is that most organizations implement encryption after-the-fact, months if not years after the initial implementation. When IT is considering a new storage system, they tend to focus on…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, RackTop, Replication, Retention, SED, Snapshots
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Will Cloud Backup Really Reduce Your Backup Investment?
Organizations make significant investments in their infrastructure. As production data continues to grow, the exponential impact on backup storage threatens to deplete IT budgets. The cloud promises to reduce on-premises backup infrastructure but most solutions only use the cloud to…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, DPaaS, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Does Your Backup Application Support VMware on AWS?
Amazon, through its VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) service enables organizations to run VMware in Amazon AWS. Organizations can use the service for disaster recovery or to migrate applications to the cloud. The transfer between on-premises and VMC is seamless…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Object Storage or NAS for File Sync and Share
The primary motivation behind using file sync and share used to be the “sync” component. Now, however, it is sharing. In an era where devices are almost always connected to the internet, syncing is less of a priority, although ubiquitous…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, GDPR, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SME, Software Defined
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Why Does the Network Team Want SDN?
The network team has a lot invested in traditional networking and may resist the move to a software-defined network (SDN), but given the pace of growth and expansion of the data center, they may not have an option. The network…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Do You Need Multi-Cloud Backup?
During our recent webinar, “Three Reasons Cloud Backup is Broken and How to Fix it“, an attendee asked “should I have a multi-cloud backup strategy?” Many organizations use multiple clouds for their production workloads. Moving a workload between clouds to…
Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient?
Cloud providers are sometimes held up as models of efficiency but are they really? Or, do cloud providers just hide inefficiency better? Cloud providers invest much of their resources in automation, so that functions within their data centers happen transparently…
Tagged with: Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Why Do Storage and vAdmin Teams Want SDN?
While it should seem like someone else’s concern, no other group within IT should want software-defined networking (SDN) more than the storage administration and virtualization vAdmin groups. SDN’s promise to all the storage and vAdmin teams is to perform their…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Making a Hybrid Array Work for the Enterprise
Hybrid storage systems create a performance concern for IT professionals. The system may respond too slowly to user or application requests for data. If the hybrid system places data on the wrong storage tier at the wrong time, it validates…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Data Analytics, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, SSD, Tegile, Western Digital
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