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How Does Tape Work in the Modern Infrastructure?

Posted on September 12, 2019 by George Crump

When considering integrating tape storage into their infrastructure, IT planners must consider the realities of how data is accessed. The IT planner needs to maximize tape’s strengths with the goal to store as much data as possible on tape because…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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How DR Orchestration Can Improve Success while Lowering Costs

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

To the organization, all applications are essential, but not all apps are critical. There is a pecking order in terms of what applications need to be back online first. Recovery prioritization is especially crucial during a full-scale disaster where the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Lightboard Video: MSPs Need to Build Value

Posted on September 10, 2019 by George Crump

Managed Service Providers (MSP) are survivors of the reseller purge seen in the early 2000s, or their founders are trying to be careful to avoid the mistakes made in that era. These organizations prevent the sale of one-time solutions and…

Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Compliance, GDPR, MSP, Recovery, SaaS
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Reintroducing Tape to the Modern Data Center – Myth Busting Tape’s Shortcomings

Posted on September 10, 2019 by George Crump

To many IT professionals, tape media and tape libraries seem like an ancient technology used by the “old” IT guys. The reality is tape as a technology can be of significant value to the organization. Almost every data center is…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Flash, Fujifilm, HDD, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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How to Meet the New Data Protection Requirements

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Data protection, specifically the backup process, is a foundational element of most data center architectures. The requirements of that foundation though are shifting from an insurance policy that the organization hopes it rarely needs to an active component of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Hybrid, Migration, Retention, Scale-Out, Test/Dev
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Lightboard Video: Fulfilling The SDS Promise

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Central to the promise of software-defined storage (SDS) is the core tenet that organizations have a single interface to manage all of their diverse storage resources. Unlike most SDS solutions, which fail to fulfill this core principle, DataCore Software is…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Lightboard Video: How to Move to HCI while retaining the best of SANs

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs-simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch.…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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In Search of True DRaaS – Datrium Delivers the DRaaS We Expected

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) burst on the scene about four years ago. However, most DRaaS solutions don’t exactly live up to expectations. Frequently built on backup, these are solutions that try to make recovery act like high availability.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, HCI, Hyperconverged, Replication, Retention, VM
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Special Presentation of Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
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Commvault Buys Hedvig – Insights and Ramifications

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

The data protection market is at a crossroads. Traditional software vendors like Commvault, EMC-Dell, Veeam and Veritas provide data protection software that resellers or end-users install on servers and storage they acquire separately. The approach tends to be services heavy.…