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SlideShare: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape

Posted on October 18, 2019 by George Crump

To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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SlideShare: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies

Posted on August 16, 2019 by George Crump

Many businesses are eager to initiate a cloud migration strategy and take advantage of the economic benefits that clouds offer. However, concerns regarding vendor lock-in, proprietary technology, and hidden costs have served as a deterrent for a large number of…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by George Crump

Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and…

Tagged with: Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, ScaleFlux
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SlideShare: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to make sure their backup infrastructure can meet the recovery objectives of today’s biggest challenges: ransomware, rapid restoration and disasters. Businesses expect their IT teams to recover faster than ever and they need business performance to be the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, StorageCraft, VMware
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SlideShare: The Top Four Challenges of Data Analytics and How to Solve Them

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Data analytics and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have become mission-critical, but today, it is simply taking too long to arrive at insights. 90% of the time that it takes to generate insights lies in human labor, and that labor is…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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SlideShare: Will Your Backup Architecture Meet Tomorrow’s SLAs? 3 Steps to Make Sure!

Posted on July 12, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations, application owner and users all have much higher expectations of IT than ever before. They expect IT to recover real-time data instantaneously and recall aged data very quickly. These expectations mean that backup architectures are getting stretched at both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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SlideShare: Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

All-Flash arrays are no longer a one size fits all. There is a clear line of demarcation between standard all-flash and extreme flash, but most suppliers try to squeeze all of an organization’s problems into a single system architecture because…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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SlideShare: Complete Your Cloud Transformation – Store Your Data in The Cloud (and live to tell about it)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are moving to the cloud but according to a recent Osterman Research study, only 14% of companies have completed that transformation. The study clearly identifies data storage as an area where IT can easily accelerate their cloud transformation journey.…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HubStor, Migration, ML, Osterman Research
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SlideShare: Simplifying the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI

Posted on May 31, 2019 by George Crump

Many organizations need to continue to run virtualized applications on-premises but are also looking to replace and consolidate aging server infrastructure. At the same time, these organizations want to leverage cloud services for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery…

Tagged with: Axellio, Azure, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud

Posted on May 24, 2019 by George Crump

Most storage consolidation strategies fail because they attempt to consolidate to a single piece of storage hardware. To successfully consolidate storage, IT professionals need to look at consolidation strategies that worked. Server consolidation was VMware’s first use case. It was…