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Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform Briefing Note

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Always-On and Optimized Data for the Hybrid Cloud Enterprise storage environments have become so complex that they are very difficult to protect and manage. Data is being created so quickly and it is being captured on such a wide range…

Tagged with: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Treat, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Replication, Veritas, Virtualization
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Kasten Data Protection and Mobility for Stateful Kubernetes

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Serving Enterprise Data Management for Production Container Environments at Scale Containers have a role in enterprise data centers beyond their initial concentration in DevOps use cases. In order to support production workloads such as relational databases, the container environment must…

Tagged with: Application Centric, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Kasten, Migration
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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Making HPC Available to the Masses – Dell Technologies HPC Briefing Note

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

With businesses beginning to rely on analytics, machine and deep learning (ML and DL), and artificial intelligence (AI) to run daily processes and generate competitive advantage, high-performance computing (HPC) is becoming more applicable outside of its traditional niche use cases,…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Data Lake, Dell EMC, DL, HPC, IOPS, ML, NAS, NFS
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StorCentric Acquires Retrospect – Comprehensive Primary through Secondary Storage Capabilities

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The lines between primary and secondary storage infrastructures are blurring. Today’s typical backup and disaster recovery workloads require faster performance while production workloads demand growing amounts of capacity. IT requires as consolidated a storage infrastructure as possible for simplicity. At…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DAS, Disaster recovery, Drobo, EU, GDPR, NAS, Nexsan, RAID, Ransomware, Retrospect, SAN, SMB, StorCentric
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Multi-Cloud versus the Five Requirements of Data – Datrium Briefing Note

Posted on June 20, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to meet five core requirements of the data they store; encryption, mobility, performance, retention and disaster recovery. To deliver these elements, IT is often forced to use five or more products just for on-premises data, let alone the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, HCI, Hyperconverged, Replication, Retention
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HiveIO Debuts Hive Fabric 7.3

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

More Proactive Infrastructure Operations and Cost-Effective, Granular Application Performance Acceleration Graphics processing units (GPUs), software-defined data center architectures, and more intelligent infrastructure management are important technologies that all stand to help IT professionals meet modern business requirements. These include ever-faster…

Tagged with: AI, GPU, HCF, HiveIO, Hyper-convergence, Hypervisor, SDN, SLA, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Actifio Multi-cloud Mobility and DR Automation

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting Vendor Lock-in – as well as costs – from the DRaaS Equation Disaster recovery (DR) is too expensive and too cumbersome to meet the near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) required by today’s business environment.…

Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, DataDriven2019, dr, DRaaS, Object Storage, RPO, RTO, VM
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How Ransomware and GDPR Break Image Based Backups and How to Fix It

Posted on June 18, 2019 by George Crump

Image based backups, after the initial backup is complete, only backup change blocks within the item they are protecting. The technology enables organizations to frequently backup critical servers and applications. It also enables the protection of file servers with millions…

Tagged with: CCPA, Data Privacy, Disaster recovery, Encryption, GDPR, ioFABRIC, Ransomware, Retention
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StorMagic Encryption Key Manager and KVM Support Briefing Note

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting the Encryption and Hypervisor Taxes for the Edge and Small Data Centers Edge data centers are quickly becoming important hubs where mission-critical data is processed. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) poses an attractive architecture to serve these environments, but there are…

Tagged with: Encryption, HCI, Hyperconvergence, SAN, StorMagic, Virtual Instruments, WAN
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