There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our…
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Webinar: How Viable is Google ColdLine Cloud Storage?
Google has recently announced expansion of their cloud storage service. It offers similar service levels as Amazon S-3 and Glacier, but with simplified pricing. How viable is their cloud storage product for the average customer? How do their service levels…
Overcoming the M&E Data Delivery Challenge
IT professionals who work for Media and Entertainment (M&E) organizations face a myriad of new challenges such as dealing with the data capacity demands of higher and higher resolution cameras and preserving that data for decades. While these challenges are…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Caringo, Cloud, Flash, M&E, Object Storage, performance, Scale-Out
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StorageShort: Object Storage for the Enterprise
Object Storage is more than just a storage system for cloud providers. In the modern enterprise it can be an ideal back-end for the various primary tiers enterprises can install today. Beyond the cost savings object storage provides, there is…
SlideShare: What’s Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and How to Fix it
Typical disaster recovery plans leverage backup and/or replication to move data out of the primary data center and to a secondary site. Historically, the secondary site is another data center that the organization maintains. But now, companies are looking to…
Adding File Services to Hyperconverged Architectures
Hyperconverged architectures are gaining interest in organizations of all sizes. They collapse the compute, network and storage tiers into a single tier that promises an easier to use and more cost effective solution for virtualized data centers. The problem is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, VM
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Webinar: Preserve, Distribute and Deliver – M&E’s Three Biggest Data Challenges
The world of Media and Entertainment (M&E) is constantly changing and those changes impact M&E IT. The challenges M&E IT professionals face are far greater than the obvious problem of increasing data and file size. Certainly, building storage infrastructures designed…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Caringo, Cloud, Flash, M&E, Object Storage, performance, Scale-Out
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Do Cloud Caching Appliances need Backup?
One way organizations can quickly leverage the cloud is through the use of a caching appliance or gateway. These solutions cache data locally so when users access active data they don’t deal with internet latency. When data is created or…
What is the most popular DR system for VMs?
I am surprised by the results of a recent online poll that asked the question “What is your DR plan for your VMs?” Participants were given four choices: Built-in software replication Array-based hardware replication Third-party app Third-party backup service The…
Creating Private Cloud Storage that you can Actually use
While public cloud storage systems have enjoyed incredible growth and success, these architectures have not yet enjoyed anything close to the same success in the traditional data center. Perhaps it’s because these organizations don’t think they need it, or perhaps…
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