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What are the Requirements of a Cloud First Strategy?
A Cloud First Strategy means that as an organization brings new applications or services online, it tries to explore the viability of a cloud deployment prior to deploying within a more traditional architecture. Many organizations today are considering a Cloud…
Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them
Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when storage and compute…
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Webinar: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
The Problems with Data Monetization
Data Monetization is leveraging an organization’s existing data to either increase profits or efficiency. This data can come from a variety of sources including modern devices like the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors and cameras. But it can also…
What is a Cloud First Strategy
Can a data protection company that first released its products in the pre-cloud era claim to adopt a “cloud first” strategy? The proof would be in the proverbial pudding, of course. If a company developing products for IT is putting…
Backing up Massive Cloud Databases
Where traditional structured databases are seeing a reduction in growth, massively scalable databases that often run in the cloud are taking off. But like so many advances in technology, scale out databases like MongoDB and Cassandra are solving one group…
Tagged with: API, Backup, Cloud, Datos IO, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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What are Cloud File Services?
Most IT professionals think of cloud storage as storage at the end of an internet connection that, because of the inherent latency, is for data that doesn’t need instant access. As a result, IT uses it mostly for backup, archive…
SlideShare: 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve IT challenges of all types. When it comes to storage, IT mostly looks at the cloud for backup, archive and occasionally for collaboration. But not for primary storage.…
Where is the Cloud? The Cloud is a Method, Not a Location
In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
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