One of the challenges with any type of email or unstructured data archive is platform migration. Most archive solutions have been set up as a data dead-end, meaning data checks in but it never leaves. The problem is of course…
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Breaking the Archive Dead End – Archive360 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Cloud, Migration, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Developing an IT Consumption Model in Traditional Data Centers
Organizations need to move from building IT to consuming IT. Sounds easy, but for a traditional data center, creating a IT consumption model looks like it requires a complete teardown and rebuild of the data center. A consumption model means…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI, Virtualization
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Getting Object Storage Ready for the Enterprise – Scality Briefing Note
There’s no question that the enterprise is starting to use object storage, even if you only consider the use of the various public cloud storage vendors, as they all use object storage interfaces. Of course, many people storing their corporate…
StorageShort: M&E – Content Distribution, Performance vs. Cost
One of the challenges facing Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies today is content distribution. No longer are users starting at their televisions screens waiting for content to come to them. They want access to the content when they want to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Caringo, CDN, Cloud, Flash, M&E, Object Storage, performance, Scale-Out
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Quorum Briefing Note – Instant Recovery Software gets Major Update
Quorum OnQ already appeared to be a solid product. OnQ is a next-gen backup and recovery product built around modern ideas of data protection. It could back up virtual or physical machines and store those backups in native (but deduplicated)…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, performance, Quorum, Recovery, Scalability, SSD, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management
The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be…
More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note
The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage
While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the…
Amazon Re:Invent Briefing – Igneous – S3 in your Data Center
Despite the ever increasing acceptance of the cloud, an undeniable reality is most organizations will have data they will never put into the cloud. At the same time these organizations “get” the value of an elastic storage infrastructure that they…
Amazon AWS re:Invent – Amazon Goes Snowmobiling
One of the biggest challenges facing an organization contemplating a move to the cloud is ingestion. How do you get all your data to the cloud in a timely manner? Sure you could replicate it, but if the organization’s data…
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