IT’s impression of the cloud has evolved over the past few years. Most IT professionals see the cloud not as a competitor but as another tool in the IT toolbox. Like any other tool, when used in the right circumstances…
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Mergers and Data Protection – The Cost of Doing Nothing
One of the most significant challenges when two organizations merge is what to do with the data protection process. In all likelihood, before the merger, each organization had its data protection practices and policy. The overwhelming tendency is to do…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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The Three New Requirements of Unstructured Data Protection
Unstructured data has been a part of the data center since there were data centers. However, over the last decade, unstructured data has fundamentally changed. What was once data consisting of office productivity documents created by users is now data…
The GDPR Effect – Why US Businesses Need to Pay Attention
Toward the end of May, companies worldwide sent out emails informing customers of updates to their data privacy policies. These emails were in response to something called GDPR, which stands for the General Data Protection Regulation. It is a European…
Tagged with: Data Protection, European, GDPR, Privacy, Regulations, Retention, Storage Architecture
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What is the Value of Hybrid Flash in an All-Flash Era?
When flash storage first became viable for the enterprise, it was also very expensive. Early devices where low in capacity as well. Hybrid systems overcame these two shortcomings by mixing hard disk and flash technologies. These systems added the capability…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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The Storage Problems That HCI Creates
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI), as they scale, start to experience several storage challenges. HCI deals with any scaling requirement with a single move, adding a node. This additional node comes with CPU and Memory to meet the compute demand, flash storage…
How to Fix Broken Backup
The single biggest challenge facing backup, ironically has nothing to do with backup. Backup’s biggest challenge is the pace at which the organization evolves and the speed at which it expects IT to keep pace with that evolution. Combine that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Why Scale-Out Architectures Break Backup
In a recent blog, we discussed how scale-up architectures break backup, forcing customers into expensive and disruptive forklift upgrades. Scale-out architectures are the logical solution to the scale-up challenge. But, scale-out architectures create problems of their own. IT planners need…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, RAID, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Avoid the Two Big Hybrid IT Protection Mistakes
Hybrid IT means that data is both on-premises and in the cloud. Increasingly it also means that IT needs to distribute data across multiple sites within the organization and move data between various cloud providers. Hybrid IT is an attempt…
Cloud NAS vs. Large Files – How Cloud NAS can Win
Many Cloud NAS solutions leverage a local cache to get around the latency problem when retrieving data from the cloud. If the requested file is on the local cache the user will notice no performance difference than before they had…
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