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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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Rethinking Your Data Governance Strategy for Compliance

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

In today’s era of regulations, the role of archive and long-term retention data is changing dramatically. No longer can data simply be shipped off to a “cheap and deep” repository with the hope that it will never need to be…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Breaking Backup with SaaS

Posted on June 27, 2019 by George Crump

Backup is the one process that almost everyone in IT would opt out of if given the choice. In addition to the IT management burden there is often the burden of the infrastructure itself, a never ending need for more…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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Obtaining More Cost-Effective Splunk Queries with SmartStore

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Version 7.3 of the Splunk Enterprise machine data analytics and visualization platform is now available, and with it will come enhanced, more enterprise and production-grade support for Splunk’s SmartStore capability. This is significant because SmartStore stands to greatly lower the…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, EC, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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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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Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 1: Business and IT Disconnect

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data analytics has become table stakes for competitive differentiation. As a result, businesses require their analytics-driven insights as quickly as possible. The reality is, however, that queries often take weeks or even months to complete. One of the key logjams…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
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How to Avoid Cloud Pitfalls to Obtain an Infrastructure-Less Backup Strategy

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Meeting requirements for infinite data retention and always-on business continuity is, practically speaking, not possible without using cloud resources in some way. On-premises backup and disaster recovery infrastructures are fraught with unpredictable costs and heavy operational overhead. At the same…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
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Actifio Data Driven 2019 – What is Digital Transformation and How Do I Get There?

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about digital transformation and the need to harness data for competitive advantage. What we don’t spend enough time talking about is what that actually means in terms of business objectives,…

Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Are Your Business Queries Taking Too Long? Data Qualification is Likely the Culprit

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Today’s business environment is defined by agility. The company that can innovate faster, react more quickly to changing end-customer preferences, and identify and pursue new revenue opportunities ahead of its peers, has a distinct competitive advantage. In order to achieve…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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MeetTheCEO: Promethium’s Kaycee Lai

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Kaycee Lai appeared on Storage Switzerland’s Meet The CEO series of webinars. Lai and Promethium have a unique vantage point into the key bottleneck that is greatly slowing down the time it takes to arrive at data-driven business intelligence: data…