Despite the headlines, most data centers have not converted to all-flash arrays just yet. While they may have a few workloads that can benefit from flash performance, most of their workloads are performing just fine on a traditional hard disk-based…
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Does Object Storage Make Sense for Backups?
Object storage is not only perfect for backups – it seems designed for it. It’s safe, economical, and scalable – everything backup storage needs to be. Specific features in object storage make it perfectly suitable for the task of holding…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloudian, Corruption, Deduplication, Object Storage, Replication, Scale
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The First Storage Refresh Step
The first step in the storage refresh process has nothing to do with vendors or storage systems. The first step should be to decide on the technology best suited to the workloads the storage system will host. Organizations need to…
How to Avoid DRaaS Lock-in with Hybrid Cloud
Open or software defined solutions promise flexibility and prevent organizations from falling into vendor lock-in. That is until it comes to disaster recovery (DR); especially DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service). Many DRaaS solutions lock the organization into a single…
Big Data for Small Enterprises
Big Data is not just for big enterprises. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) can reap the same rewards. But SMEs can’t build a Big Data infrastructure like larger enterprises. The good news it they don’t have to, they can leverage…
What are Recovery Time Reality & Recovery Point Reality?
Recovery time reality (RTR) and recovery point reality (RPR) are relatively new terms that relate to recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). They refer to the difference between the actual capabilities of your recovery system and the…
How Do You Improve Your RTO?
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time it takes to recover an application or server so users can login and get back to work. IT is under constant pressure to reduce this time. There are two broad methods you can…
Where Should Copy Data Reside?
Copy data is getting a lot of attention and solutions to manage it are flooding to market. But a question few of these solutions let you ask is, “WHERE should that copy data reside?” For the most part, they assume…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, MSP, Replication, Virtualize
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Does Flash Eliminate Performance Optimization?
Flash storage is increasingly more affordable, so much so that many organizations are throwing storage infrastructure optimization out the window. Flash is making performance management and tuning a lost art form. The problem is performance management is still very necessary.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bottleneck, CPU, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, Optimization, SQL, Tegile
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How Hybrid Cloud Helps DR
Given the increased threats facing organizations today, a single DR site is no longer good enough. Instead organizations need to apply a hybrid cloud mentality to their disaster recovery strategies. What Will You Fail? The most important data after a…
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