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Why DR Orchestration is a Must Have
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Making the Hybrid Cloud Work for Media and Entertainment
The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is already taking advantage of the cloud, but most of the workflows have been rendering, simulation or other ephemeral use cases. The advantages of using the cloud for more permanent project tasks though should…
Streaming Recovery vs. In-Place Recovery – Which is Better?
Server recovery from backup typically means copying data from the backup device over the network back to a production storage system or server. In addition to copying the data across the network, the backup software has to extract it from…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Recovery in Place, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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Silos of Clusters – Is this the End Result of Data Center Modernization?
Applications like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow typically operate on scale-out architectures built from dozens, if not hundreds of servers, which act as nodes in the application’s cluster. Many organizations now use a mix of these applications to derive the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF
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New eBook: Hyperscale Performance, Is NVMe Enough?
Hyperscale architectures that support Elastic, Hadoop, and Kafka, often vary wildly between organizations and even within each organization. Each workload often needs its own cluster and IT teams are constantly trying new technology within those clusters, trying to improve performance.…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF
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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud
Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud tend to be the direction that most organizations are heading with their cloud strategy. The problem is the path to both of these cloud strategies is full of unexpected twists and turns. What is Hybrid-Cloud? While these…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Egress Fees, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Replication
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What is the State of Software Defined Storage?
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts the storage software from the storage hardware. It sounds great on paper and looks great on the whiteboard but in execution it fails to impress. Storage Switzerland finds that the large majority of customers still…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, dr, Migration, NVMe, OPEX, PCIe, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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SlideShare: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies
Many businesses are eager to initiate a cloud migration strategy and take advantage of the economic benefits that clouds offer. However, concerns regarding vendor lock-in, proprietary technology, and hidden costs have served as a deterrent for a large number of…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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Bringing an OpEx Model to the Data Protection Service Provider
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…
Meet The CEO: HYCU, Inc’s Simon Taylor
Backup and Recovery is as old as the data center itself, but organizations still struggle with the process. IT professionals have tried many solutions to solve their data protection solutions, and the market is full of options, but none seem…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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