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Building a Cloud Storage Toolkit – What Types of Cloud Storage are There?
Cloud storage is a broad term that covers a lot of different storage types. Generally it should be reserved for storage that resides outside of an organization’s data center. Typically your data goes to one of the larger public cloud…
How hard is it to do DR for VMware/Hyper-V?
You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…
Tagged with: dr, HCI, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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Is your Filer running out of Steam?
Filers can start out so fast and end up so slow. How is that possible? A lot of companies buy a new filer and run a few performance tests against it, and they’re happy with what they see. The problem…
Object Storage FAQ
One of the things I like about Spiceworks is the website’s user forums. They give a good sense of what is going on in the trenches of IT. Recently a user asked a series of questions about Object Storage. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Putting the P Back in Disaster Recovery Planning
It seems that sometimes we forget the third letter in the acronym “DRP” (Disaster Recovery Planning). The “P” stands for “planning” and it is something that busy data center administrators replace with “make it up as you go along”. The…
A Secondary Storage Game Changer? – Commvault Go 2016
A data protection solution has many parts. First, obviously, there is the data protection software that moves data from production storage to secondary storage. The software, of course, gets a lot of attention. It has to protect all of an…
Tagged with: Commvault, Compression, Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Scalability, Software Defined
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Data Management as a Strategy – Commvault Go 2016
A complete data management requires solutions for data protection, data preservation, copy management, data mobility, data classification, data search and disaster recovery. There are numerous point solutions on the market today that address these needs, but most only cover one…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Integration, Replication, Snapshot
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Designing an All-Flash Object Store
Object storage is set to become THE way organizations will store unstructured data. As this transition occurs those same organizations are expecting more from object storage than just a “cheap and deep” way to store information. They expect the system…
Tagged with: Flash, Latency (engineering), Metadata, Nexenta, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Flash can’t Flatten Storage
At the FujiFilm Global IT Executive Summit there was a lot of discussion about data management and making sure the right data is on the right storage tier at the right time. Data management has been a core IT function…
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