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SlideShare: How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications

Agile IT: it is far easier to say than to implement. But data centers need to make the move to Agile IT so their organizations can survive the digital transformation. At the heart of these efforts are modern DevOps environments

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Introducing DRaaS 2.0

When Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was first introduced its advantages were immediately obvious to the organizations that chose to use it. Namely the cost savings in not having to equip and operate a remote DR site. But limitations

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Do you need to Backup your Sync/Share Service?

Sync and share services need backup for all the same reasons that you need to backup everything else. A lot of people think this isn’t the case, but the short version of the answer to the question is yes, you

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StorageShort: The Use Cases for Containerized Legacy Apps

The move to containers is not just for new applications anymore. Organizations that have applications written in Java or .Net can now easily containerize them. Even packaged application providers like Oracle provide official images to run components of their architecture

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Google Competes Head-to-Head with Amazon – Google Cloud Storage Briefing Note

Google surprised a lot of people with its very strong offering aimed directly at Amazon S3. It is clear the product managers offering the Google cloud storage product were very familiar with complaints people have about Amazon S3 and are

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Archive Lessons from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you have not seen Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and don’t want me to ruin the most crucial part of the climax, and you are craving a blog on archiving then go read this blog. You’ve

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SlideShare: DRaaS vs. DIY DR – Which is Best For Your Organization?

Organizations are under constant pressure to improve their ability to recover from a disaster while lowering the cost of the disaster recovery process. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is catching the attention of many IT professionals as a viable

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Is a Cloud Gateway Enough?

The ability for a storage system to store data in the cloud via an NFS or SMB connection – often referred to as a cloud gateway – is becoming table stakes. At this point in IT infrastructure development, we still

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Merging NAS, Object and The Cloud – Avere C2N Product Brief

As more organizations move to the cloud or plan to move to the cloud, in order to address challenges like the ever-rising tide of unstructured data, many are encountering various unexpected complications. Some of these complications are things like increasing

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High Performance Private Cloud Storage via Software – StorPool Briefing Note

Multiple classes of storage make up public clouds (Amazon and Google both have at least three tiers). One of those is made from memory like flash or even DRAM to provide high performance storage to compute intensive applications. Private clouds

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