Many organizations are working on a cloud data migration strategy. The problem is just working on a cloud migration strategy is too narrow and shortsighted. The cloud is not a single destination. There are multiple cloud providers and it is…
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Developing a Comprehensive Data Migration Strategy
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup
For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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3 Reasons Why Networking Breaks HCI Scalability
One of the most appealing aspects of hyperconverged Infrastructures is their ability to scale. When IT needs more compute or storage resources to keep up with their rapidly growing enterprise, they are told to “just add a node”. There is…
Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix it
For most organizations backup, the process of regularly and consistently protecting production data, is fundamentally broken. As a result, these organizations have very little confidence in IT’s ability to recover data at all, let alone promptly. To try to fix…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hyperconverged, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Sprawl
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New Whitepaper: Understanding Cloud NAS Architectures
When organizations first start to leverage cloud resources they typically try to use the cloud to solve their biggest problems first; data protection and unstructured data management. The rapid and unprecedented growth of unstructured data has made both of these…
Unstructured Data Protection Should Integrate Archive
Backup and archive have always been on opposing ends of the data management spectrum. Conventional wisdom suggests that the two should never meet and cries of “backup is not archive” fill the air. The reality is, the “backup is not…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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Unstructured Data’s Compliance and Retention Gap
In most data centers, unstructured data now consumes more storage capacity than all of the organization’s structured data combined. Yet organizations still often treat unstructured data like a second-class citizen when it comes to data protection. Because of its size…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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End-User Acceptance, Priority 1 for Enterprise Endpoint Backup
There are a lot of excellent reasons to deploy an enterprise-wide data protection strategy and at the top of the list is protecting users from Ransomware. One of the critical challenges, though, to successfully deploying an enterprise-wide endpoint backup strategy,…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LTE, Malware, Ransomware, Replication, Virtualization
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Where Would We Be Without NVMe?
The purpose of the NVMe standard is to replace SCSI-based protocols, like SAS, so memory-based storage systems, like all-flash arrays, can live up to their full potential. Data centers may not need the performance potential of NVMe all-flash systems. But…
Are Hybrid Arrays the New Secondary Storage
Before all-flash hybrid arrays existed, systems made up of flash, and high performance hard disk drives were the go-to option for organizations looking to solve performance problems. However, hybrid systems’ dominance was short lived as all-flash arrays came to market…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Replication, Tegile, Virtualization
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