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Centralizing Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup for Efficient Business Continuity – Arcserve Briefing Note

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The majority of organizations are not fully confident in their ability to recover data and workloads in the event of an outage. This is due in part to legacy practices of using a myriad of point product solutions to address…

Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, SLA
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An Alternative Path to Storage Modernization – Coraid Briefing Note

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Disruption is the hallmark of today’s storage industry. The steady maturation of new delivery models (cloud services), media (flash) and access protocols (NVMe) evidence the fact that legacy storage architectures are no longer sufficient. Businesses are turning to ever-growing data…

Tagged with: ATA over Ethernet, ATAoE, Cloud, Coraid, Flash, NVMe, SLA, SRX
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Using the Cloud to Integrate Backup and Archive – HubStor Briefing Note

Posted on February 13, 2019 by George Crump

For decades the best practice for backup and archive was to keep the processes separate. The storage hardware products that support traditional backups are typically very different from those that support archive. The software products are also very different and…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Corruption, Data Protection, HubStor, NFS, Ransomware, SMB, Unstructured data
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Invisible Networking – The Missing Piece of the Hybrid Cloud Puzzle – Big Switch Networks Briefing Note

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The majority of IT organizations today are contending with a fragmented mixture of on and off-premises infrastructure resources. This multi-cloud reality creates management complexity, and as a result, demands a “hybrid cloud” approach that provides integration, automated and single-pane-of-glass management,…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Nutanix
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Is All-NVMe Worth Your Money? – WorkloadWisdom 6.2 Virtual Instruments Briefing Note

Posted on February 7, 2019 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays (AFA), the goto high performance storage system for the past few years, is being replaced by All-NVMe. NVMe flash promises to improve performance by reducing latency and increasing bandwidth to flash based media. NVMe is PCIe based instead…

Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Fabric, Flash, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, SMB, Virtual Instruments
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Modernizing Data Management for a SaaS-driven World – Odaseva Briefing Note

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Applications such as Salesforce.com are becoming increasingly data-driven, as businesses seek to harvest and analyze as much data as possible to drive customer satisfaction, maximize productivity of employees, and make more informed business decisions. These applications are delivered through a…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, Encryption, GDPR, IaaS, iPaaS, Odaseva, PaaS, SaaS
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Designing Storage for Multi-Million IOPS Performance – Apeiron Briefing Note

Posted on January 31, 2019 by George Crump

There is no doubt specific applications have an ever growing need for more IOPS, millions in fact, and the number of organizations implementing these applications is on the rise. The traditional bottlenecks to achieving millions of IOPS are gone. Networks,…

Tagged with: Apeiron, Compression, Deduplication, IOPS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Snaphots, SSD, Thin provisioning
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Enterprise HCI Requires Enterprise Data Protection – HYCU 3.5 Briefing Note

Posted on January 9, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Nutanix are improving their ability to support enterprise applications like SAP-HANA. The broader the application and workload that an HCI solution can support, the better the return on investment and the more it lives up…

Tagged with: Archive, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Nutanix, Replication, Snapshot
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Enterprise Class Open SDS – SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 Briefing Note

Posted on November 21, 2018 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, CEPH, Cloud, HPC, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale, SDS, SMB, SUSE
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note

Posted on November 19, 2018 by George Crump

Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…