Data Management is the art of intelligently moving data to the tier of storage that best balances the performance requirements with the cost of storing it and stage of its life cycle. In a perfect world, organizations would put all…
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The Importance of Protecting Cloud Hosted Applications
Anyone who thinks you don’t need to back up cloud applications such as salesforce, Office 365 and Google Apps clearly has some thinking to do. There is no such thing as the cloud. There is only someone else’s data center.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Disk, dr, Ransomware, Replication, Tape
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Is it Time to Reboot Primary Storage?
Primary storage has remained the same for quite some time. It comes in two primary forms: block or file, also known as SAN or NAS. Yes, each of these two forms can be filled with a mix of ingredients, including…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, file sync and share, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, Scale-Out
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The Role of Tape in Today’s Data Center
The use of tape has certainly declined in today’s data center, but it has not disappeared – much to the chagrin of some people who are self-professed “tape haters”. They simply don’t understand why anyone would use tape in a…
Webinar: 3 Reasons You Are Losing the Data Management Battle
And How To Start Winning Organizations managing data have a competitive advantage over organizations that don’t. But most organizations don’t have the time or tools available to implement a successful data management strategy. It’s not for a lack of trying.…
StorageShort: Archive is the Most Important Part of Your DR Plan
Archiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of IT process. In fact, in a recent poll performed by Storage Switzerland, a terrifying 67 percent of respondents indicated that they counted on the backup process to be part of their archive. How Are…
The Advantages of a Fabric Based File System
Storage solutions that offer customers familiar, flexible interfaces (e.g.files and file attributes), while also offering advanced features like automated data movement and cloud bursting, offer a unique solution to many problems. The more seamless we can make things for the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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Object Storage Maturing – Scality Briefing Note
When private cloud object storage vendors first started appearing on the market, many of them were missing many core features. Some did not have any concept of enterprise access control, encryption or versioning, while others did not have multi-region support.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, file sync and share, Object Storage, Scality
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Webinar: The 5 Disaster Recovery Questions You’re Not Asking
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is changing the way data center administrators think about disaster recovery. A DR site and equipment no longer need to be bought in advance. DRaaS instead enables DR to be on-demand. The concept is…
What is a Data Fabric?
When most IT professionals hear the phrase “storage is growing”, they typically roll their eyes and assume the vendor is talking about the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in data capacity requirements over the last decade or so. But storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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