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Lightboard Video: How to Lower the Cost of Backup Infrastructure

Posted on January 16, 2020 by George Crump

The cost to store backups on-premises is already a significant expense for data centers to endure and the rapid growth in unstructured data is pushing budgets to the breaking point. Cloud Storage, because of its low cost and infinite scalability,…

Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
Posted in Video

Data Management as a Service – Igneous Briefing Note

Posted on September 25, 2019 by George Crump

Data management is a project that many IT professionals and application owners feel they are too busy or don’t have enough expertise to undertake. Most data management tasks are big projects that take a lot of planning and continuous care…

Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, CapEx, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, WAN
Posted in Briefing Note

Cutting Through Multi-Cloud Complexity – Dell Technologies World Cloud Briefing Note

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Multi-cloud is a necessity. To meet varying cost and privacy requirements, data and workloads must exist and be able to traverse across on-premises private clouds that exist in core and edge data centers, as well as externally hosted off-premises infrastructure-as-a-service…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Dell, Dell World, Dell World 2019, HCI, SLA, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

What is Enterprise Data as a Service

Posted on May 2, 2017 by George Crump

The IT “as a service” model is working well for organizations. It enables them to start small and scale quickly as IT demand increases. And IT as a service’s value is not limited to start up companies. Organizations of all…

Tagged with: Actifio, Archive, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, IaaS, SaaS
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SlideShare: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics

Posted on June 15, 2016 by George Crump

Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Consolidation, Flash, SSD, Tegile, VMware
Posted in Slideshare

StorageShort: The Challenges of the Private Cloud

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

A private cloud should be the ultimate goal of the software defined data center (SDC). It transforms the data center into a self-provisioned, highly automated organism, that is more responsive to the needs of the organization while driving down the…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Consolidation, Flash, Software Defined, SSD, Tegile, VMware
Posted in StorageShort

Webinar: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics

Posted on April 18, 2016 by George Crump

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Consolidation, Flash, SSD, Tegile, VMware
Posted in Webinar

Multi-Tenant Docker Storage Containers

Posted on January 6, 2016 by George Crump

Briefing Note: Zadara Storage Corporate IT is transitioning to an “As a Service” model. That is because the as a service model is not just isolated to the cloud – there are plenty of on-premises service use cases as well.…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, Flash, Multi-Tenant, QOS, SSD, Zadara
Posted in Briefing Note

Eagle Eye Networks brings the Cloud to Video Surveillance

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Eric Slack

Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…

Tagged with: Analytics, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, Data Growth, Eagle Eye, Expandable, Infrastructure, Video
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DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Eric Slack

Disaster Recovery could be the best implementation of the ‘as-a-Service’ business model yet because it fits the cloud delivery system so well and features an entirely different value proposition than other cloud services. DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offers more than the added…