Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under…
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Can the Cloud Save IT From the Secondary Storage Deluge?
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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Posted in Webinar
Unstructured Data Protection Should Integrate Archive
Backup and archive have always been on opposing ends of the data management spectrum. Conventional wisdom suggests that the two should never meet and cries of “backup is not archive” fill the air. The reality is, the “backup is not…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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Posted in Blog
Unstructured Data’s Compliance and Retention Gap
In most data centers, unstructured data now consumes more storage capacity than all of the organization’s structured data combined. Yet organizations still often treat unstructured data like a second-class citizen when it comes to data protection. Because of its size…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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Posted in Blog
How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note
Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, LTO, Object Storage, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage
Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
Are Hybrid Arrays the New Secondary Storage
Before all-flash hybrid arrays existed, systems made up of flash, and high performance hard disk drives were the go-to option for organizations looking to solve performance problems. However, hybrid systems’ dominance was short lived as all-flash arrays came to market…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Replication, Tegile, Virtualization
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Why IT Needs a New Data Protection Strategy for Unstructured Data
Unstructured data has always been a sore spot for the data protection process. The growth in the number of files that make up unstructured data sets and the capacity that they consume now threatens to break the data protection model…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, BLI, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Restoration, Retention, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem
Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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High Availability vs. Instant Recovery
All applications in a data center are critical to some degree, and while there are a few applications that are mission-critical, most applications can be down for at least a few minutes without seriously impacting the organization. The problem is…
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