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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c

Posted on December 17, 2019 by George Crump

Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
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Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup

Posted on December 12, 2019 by George Crump

There is a difference between availability and backup. Providing a workload with high availability means that if a component of the infrastructure fails, adequate measures are in place to ensure that the use of the workload continues with little or…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
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Can The Storage Infrastructure Keep Pace with Data Center Modernization?

Posted on December 12, 2019 by George Crump

The modern data center is increasingly microservice or container-based. These workloads are dynamic and unpredictable. The datasets within these workloads range from thousands of large files to billions of small files. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are being…

Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, EXTEN, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, SSD
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The Time is Now for File Virtualization

Posted on December 9, 2019 by George Crump

One part of File Virtualization is a global file system that abstracts the physical location of data from the logical directory structure. Even though data may move between physical file servers or network-attached storage (NAS) systems, users continue to access…

Tagged with: Archive, DataCore, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, pNFS, ROI, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Meeting the Storage Challenges of Azure Stack Edge Deployments

Posted on December 9, 2019 by George Crump

The public cloud is typically looked on as the great consolidator. Organizations, small and large, use the cloud as a hub for data storage and distribution. Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of edge use cases, and the major…

Tagged with: Cloud, Edge Computing, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scale-Out, Scality, SMB, Software Defined
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Overcoming the DRaaS Time Compromise

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) looks great on paper. DRaaS vendors tell organizations that they can eliminate their disaster recovery site and recover on-demand, in the cloud. The potential for cost savings abounds. Organizations have the potential to reduce…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Flash, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, NFS, NVMe, SDDC
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File Servers; Is It Time to Say Goodbye?

Posted on November 19, 2019 by George Crump

Unstructured data is the fastest-growing segment of data in the data center. A significant portion of data within unstructured data is the data that users create though office productivity and other specialized applications. User data also often represents the bulk…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Ransomware, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VPN
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Does Cloud-Native Mean Cloud Protected?

Posted on November 15, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they sometimes assume that data protection is built-in to the service. However, what cloud service providers offer is high availability and durability, not backup. But organizations, whether their applications are in the cloud…

Tagged with: Archive, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Privacy, Deduplication, HYCU, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshots, SQL
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Veritas Flex 5150 Briefing Note – Solving the Edge Data Center Protection Challenge

Posted on November 7, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are no longer all centrally located at a single headquarters. They are not even a collection of three or four locations. Instead, the modern organization can have dozens of sites. In specific industries like retail, these organizations can have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Edge Data, Hybrid, IoT, Ransomware, Redundancy, SaaS, Veritas
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Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage

Posted on November 4, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…