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…
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How to Fix Broken Backup
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…
Hybrid IT Changes Disaster Recovery
It used to be that organizations consolidated all data into one location. All a disaster recovery planner had to do, which was still no easy task, was get that data backed up and get a copy sent to an off-site…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Replication, SaaS
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What is Software Defined Networking?
Like other software defined initiatives, software defined networking (SDN) abstracts the networking operating environment from the hardware switches and controller. The SDN promise is to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by managing a set of physical top of rack…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, ROI, SDN, SDS, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Is Data Protection Ready for Hybrid IT?
Hybrid IT moves workloads and their data to and from a variety of remote locations, secondary data centers, and cloud to meet the demands of a data-driven organization. Hybrid IT enables organizations to achieve the best possible outcome from being…
Why Endpoints Break Backup
According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…
StorageSwiss Live! Backup is Dead – Modernizing Data Protection and Data Management
Join Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump on our next series of live events; Backup is Dead – How to Modernize Data Protection and Data Management. George is one of the top rated speakers in the IT industry…
Tagged with: AI, Backup, Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Hitachi Vantara, Hybrid, IoT
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The 5 Steps to Intelligent Data Management
Organizations are creating and capturing more data than ever. Creating and capturing data though is just the starting point. Organizations need to leverage that data to drive better outcomes. Most organizations use brute force to manage this data, which is…
Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Encryption, Hyper-Availability, Intelligent Data, IoT, Provisioning, Ransomware, Veeam
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