In general, IT organizations have been conditioned to think that the only way to obtain higher storage performance and to gain additional storage capacity is to periodically upgrade their storage infrastructure. While storage system upgrades can provide a boost in…
Over-buying or over-spec’ing an SSD solution is all too common because managers often aren’t completely sure of the requirements for a particular application but can’t risk having their SSD fail or even underperform. The available options have been consumer-class drives…
Primary storage is being overwhelmed by data growth, much of it unstructured digital content. These are large files that don’t change but must still remain online, often for extended periods of time. Tier-1 storage systems are too expensive, especially over…
Everybody understood traditional file servers. They were the repositories for documents at work that facilitated sharing. Now, online file sharing (OFS) has become the new corporate file server that companies don’t control. IT has to get out in front of…
File sync and share is increasingly becoming a business-critical productivity application for users across multiple industries. The user demand for access to business documents from any device, anywhere, at any time has rapidly accelerated the adoption of cloud-based file sync…
Data profiling allows organizations to report and analyze file and email content in order to streamline their data center. By non-disruptively scanning NAS and server storage repositories, backup tapes and archives such as SharePoint, IT planners can gain deep insight…
The wide area network (WAN) as we know it today is evolving. Over the past decade, many organizations have deployed hardware appliances to help speed up the WAN links between data center sites, as well as between primary data centers…
Data sets are growing, but so are the periods of time that they’re being saved. Once primarily driven by regulatory compliance, companies are now finding that there are other factors pushing data retention to seemingly unlimited duration. The repurposing of…
Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…
Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…
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