One of the challenges facing almost every IT organization is storage system sprawl, a problem that is increasing. When we visit a data center there is often a storage system for each workload; one for virtual desktops, one for virtual servers, one for…
The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…
EMC was one of the first companies to roll out a converged infrastructure when they created VCE, a turnkey solution that combined VMware, CISCO server/networking technology and EMC storage called “vBlock”. VCE and others like it significantly reduced the time it took…
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
Cloud-based services, like backup and disaster recovery, offer attractive alternatives for many SMBs. They’re simple to set up and operate, can be scaled easily and paid for on a monthly basis. But companies typically have to give something up, usually…
Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…
Cloud storage is often thought of as a giant repository in the sky, where old backups and archives go, seldom to be seen again. But this may not always be the best cloud use case for data centers. Storing a…
Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…
Dropbox is the poster child for Shadow IT, and for good reason. The solution is easy to use and, because it operates transparently, it’s just another folder. But Dropbox was originally designed to be a consumer tool, not a business…
Everybody agrees that intelligent archives are the way to efficiently manage data, moving lesser-accessed files off of expensive storage and providing a long-term retention capability. When combined with backup, an archive can improve both primary storage utilization and data protection,…
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