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What Should you Expect from Disk Backup in 2017?
You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
What is the Hybrid Cloud and How to Make it Work?
The cloud moniker is used to describe virtually everything in IT today. We call that cloud washing and “hybrid cloud” is suffering the same fate. A cloud is typically a scale-out cluster of commodity servers that deliver a service (compute,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, Latency, Scale-Out, VM
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Enterprise File Sync and Share vs. A File Strategy
Users want their files available to them at all times, on any device and at any location. Organizations are scrambling to implement enterprise file sync and share products answer the demand before users go off and do it themselves with…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, File Sharing, File Strategy, file sync and share, IBM, Latency
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Do You Understand Your Disaster Recovery Buckets?
Disaster Recovery is a complex and fragile process. That is why it is important for IT to simplify that process as much as possible. An area where we are seeing success is how you group applications. While each application will…
Does Your Copy Data Solution Play Checkers or Chess? – Catalogic Briefing Note
A copy data management solution should save organization’s money in two areas. First, and most obvious, physical capacity consumption by creating virtual copies instead of actual copies, but any storage system with snapshot capabilities can at some level claim that…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, MS-SQL, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SDS, Snapshot, Virtualization
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How Does FileFly Make Windows Data Management Better?
Organizations today deal with daunting storage challenges. To handle the ever-increasing deluge of data, they need the ability to scale-out storage to handle multiple terabytes and millions of files. They also face the need to upgrade their Windows File Servers…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Cold Data, Erasure Coding, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS
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How To Cut Your DR Expenses
One of the reasons why disaster recovery attempts often fail is DR process planning and operation is so expensive. The expenses associated with the DR process leads organizations to try to cut corners in an effort to reduce costs. That…
Should a Backup Appliance be Part of your Backup Refresh?
Backup needs a refresh to keep up with recovery demands of modern application and increasingly expectant users. They expect an “always-on data center.” IT professionals are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. For many, an always-on strategy is a concept that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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How to Tame Data and Storage Sprawl with a Cross-Cloud Data Fabric
Over the last decade, the modern data center has evolved into a complex, virtualized environment that hosts many different types of applications ranging from legacy applications to new next-gen applications, while also struggling to securely store, manage, and monetize the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SSD, Storage Sprawl
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