For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
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Using Object Storage to Reverse Cloud Storage
A top priority for IT professionals in 2016 is deciding on a cloud storage strategy. Of the available options, most consider using the public cloud for secondary storage purposes, like backup and archiving, to be the most obvious path to…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cold Data, dr, Hybrid, SwiftStack
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Why Tape still matters today
In our column, “What’s Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, my colleague George Crump discussed how cloud storage can be a cost effective alternative to onsite storage for active data, but where cold data is concerned it becomes a…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Is Deduplication Useless on Archive Data?
One of the techniques that storage vendors use to reduce the cost of hard disk-based storage is deduplication. Deduplication is the elimination of redundant data across files. The technology is ideal for backup, since so much of a current copy…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Crossroads, Disaster recovery, Disk, dr, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Tape
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Hybrid Cloud Backup 2.0
Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
Backup is not Archive
In order to protect their data while dealing with explosive data growth, many organizations have started backing up their data to the cloud in an effort to reduce their storage and data center costs as well as obtaining data redundancy…
Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
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Future Proofing the Storage Reseller
Storage resellers are in a precarious situation. They have to differentiate not only themselves from other storage resellers theyat have to differentiate themselves from storage manufacturers that are often tempted to have a direct relationship with the reseller’s customers. On…
Hardware First – Designing All-Flash Arrays From a Hardware First Perspective
Data centers have to meet the increasing performance demands of scale out databases, big data analytics, and dense virtual environments. These data centers need to meet these demands without requiring more data center floor space or consuming more power. All-flash…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Backup, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
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Using Open Data Management to enable IT Transformation
Enterprises are looking for a way out. Out of the trap of a data center made up of closed systems and into a data center that is open so that they can drive down costs and be more responsive to…
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