Speed of recovery from any disaster is always important, but it is most critical in terms of recovering from a ransomware attack. Most ransomware fees are typically a few thousand dollars, and are rarely more than $20,000. For the organization,…
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Speed is Critical For Ransomware Recovery
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery, ROI, WannaCry
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When Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
Do NAS Systems Need More Than NFS & SMB?
Many years ago when the NAS market was born, it was very simple to distinguish between NAS systems and SAN systems. SAN systems ran on Fibre Channel and NAS systems ran on Ethernet. SAN systems used block protocols like SCSI…
Why Windows File Server Archive ROIs are Broken
Windows file server archiving is the process of getting all the old data off of an organization’s Windows file servers and moving them to some less expensive form of storage. The concept has been around almost since there were Windows…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Caringo, NAS, Object Storage, Optimization, Ransomware, ROI, Windows
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The Security Advantage of Cloud Bursting
The result of a poll in our latest webinar, “How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing to the Cloud“, indicates security remains a concern of organizations looking at leveraging the cloud. In the poll, 46% of respondents chose security as…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale
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Why Enterprise File Sync and Share is Broken
It seems like every CIO has enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) on their project whiteboard. The problem is that it is stuck there and the alternative, users doing their own thing, seems sort of acceptable. Most EFSS solutions are…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Deplication, EFSS, file sync and share, FS&S, Migration, Qnext
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Why are SDS Vendors Becoming Hardware Vendors?
Things used to be simpler. There were monolithic storage vendors using proprietary hardware and there were software defined storage (SDS) vendors selling software that you could run on your favorite Intel machine. But the SDS wave sent a clear signal…
Data Preservation vs. Data Archive
Eighty percent of an organization’s data is active and 15% of it really matters. Archiving is the management of the 80%. Data preservation is the management 15%. While organizations often need help identifying the 80% of data that is not…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CloudLanes, Compression, Data Preservation, Encryption, M&E, Replication, SMB, Tape, Virtual
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Can The Storage Channel Solve The Cloud Storage Latency Problem
While cloud storage has plenty of benefits, its biggest weakness, latency, keeps it from receiving full adoption. The solution may be found in a group of businesses that many think cloud storage replaces, storage resellers. If they can solve the…
The State of Storage Architectures
Storage architectures evolved from the legacy scale-up architectures to scale-out architectures. Scale-out architectures evolved into hyperconverged architectures. The data center is also evolving, of course, but at an even faster pace. The problem is all this storage evolution has not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Kaminario, NVMe, Redundancy, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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