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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
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Bringing an OpEx Model to the Data Protection Service Provider

Posted on August 15, 2019 by George Crump

A managed service provider (MSP) that offers a data protection service typically provides backup, recovery and high availability capabilities to their customers in the form of a subscription based service. In some cases those providers enjoy a similar pricing model…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, CapEx, Cloud, GDPR, MSP, NAS, NFS, OPEX, SaaS, STaaS, Zadara
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How to Stay IN the Data Center Business

Posted on August 7, 2019 by George Crump

Experts claim that organizations want to “get out of the data center business” as one of the reasons that organizations want to move to the Cloud. While that justification does come up occasionally, in most cases top organizations are quite…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Data center, IOPS, OPEX, S1aaS, StorONE
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?

Posted on June 19, 2019 by George Crump

The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Kaminario Drives Composable Storage 2.0

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Accelerated performance and usage-based storage for business critical applications A new generation of composable infrastructure that is truly software-only is required to deliver the levels of multi-cloud data mobility, automation, efficiency and flexibility, which are required by modern workloads. These…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Multi-Cloud Needs Composable Infrastructure

Posted on May 15, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations now live in a multi-cloud world. Workloads can run on-premises one day and then in the cloud the next, only to return back to on-premises soon after. A challenge for organizations looking for this type of workload mobility…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Alternatives to the Public Cloud

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As discussed in our previous blog, cloud computing is commonly heralded as the future, in large part due to the ability to procure and to pay for IT infrastructure resources on demand. The problem is that the cloud does not…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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15 Minute Webinar: What Are Composable Infrastructures?

Posted on May 6, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals are hearing a lot about composable infrastructures and many vendors are claiming to offer a solution, but only a few have truly composable solutions ready for deployment today. The goal of composability is to bring the cloud like…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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The Requirements of a Cloud-Like Experience for On-Premises Mission Critical Workloads

Posted on April 12, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud provides computing, networking and storage resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. IT resources become an operational expense. Most on-premises data center resources need to be purchased up front. IT resources are a capital expense. The challenge with purchasing hardware…