After being delisted from NASDAQ and filing for Chapter 11, Tintri may have found a savior. Data Direct Networks (DDN) entered into a non-binding letter of intent agreement with Tintri to acquire most of Tintri’s assets. DDN is a well-run…
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Next Generation Networks Need to be More than Fast
The data center network is on the verge of one of its most dramatic upgrades in bandwidth in decades. Virtualized data centers, as well as hyperscale and rack scale environments, are driving the need for higher bandwidth networks. These environments…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, DAS, FCoE, HCI, Hyperscale, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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How to Leverage the Cloud for Unstructured Data Protection
Unstructured data is growing at alarming rates. The growth is the result of not only increased user activity but also by machines and IoT devices. Re-creation of this data isn’t possible. It is a point time capture of sensory data.…
The Importance of Consolidation for Secure Storage
The Security Problems with Multi-Vendor Data Storage One of the most common data center trends is storage system sprawl. In today’s data center, every environment or workload has a unique storage architecture. While dispersed storage does allow IT to target…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Snapshots, Software Defined
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Are You Ready for Ransomware’s Next Phase?
Ransomware has been a thorn in the side of IT professionals for over five years. What those professionals have seen so far though is just the tip of the iceberg. At the same time that IT is improving its response…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration, Ransomware, Recovery
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The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is no longer limited to the halls of academia and large government labs. Commercial HPC use cases are on the rise. Many organizations now have a large pool of unstructured data that requires analysis. The challenge for…
Are Snapshots Enough to Protect Unstructured Data?
Unstructured data is hard to protect. It is growing at alarming rates. It is a crucial target of cyber-threats like ransomware. Even the makeup of the data is problematic. Unstructured data is often made up of millions, and in some…
Requirements for a Flash to Flash to Cloud Architecture
The first three chapters presented the flash to flash to cloud architecture as a design that enables an organization to overcome the majority of its primary storage challenges as well as provide a method to improve its data protection and…
Unstructured Data Backup and GDPR
Because of its sheer size, both in capacity and number of files, protecting unstructured data is a top concern for many organizations. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the growing concern over data privacy worldwide…
Not all Cloud NAS are the Same – Understanding Cloud NAS Architectures
Unprecedented data growth, increased demands for performance and new use cases like analytics and IoT are pushing Network Attached Storage (NAS) to the breaking point. Organizations are looking to cloud storage to help them solve the problem and stop the…
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