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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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Unstructured Data Has Changed – Has Your Protection Strategy?
Unstructured data is easily the largest data set in the enterprise today and what makes up that data set has changed dramatically over the past ten years. What used to be relatively few and small files created by users are…
Managing Data to Manage Ransomware
One of the reasons that data centers are so vulnerable to ransomware attacks is the amount of data that remains accessible on production storage. The reality is that most of this data does not need to be there. Investing in…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Snapshots Break Backup
Snapshots are incredibly popular and a powerful way to protect data. They enable an organization to protect data rapidly without consuming disk capacity until additional changes occur. Most storage systems can also roll back snapshot images for rapid restores and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, Replication, Scale Up
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