Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…
Most business owners don’t worry about data backup or recovery. But when a critical application becomes unavailable or worse, when the business loses data they panic. Data protection becomes a high priority and a cloud based backup solution seems like…
Private or hybrid cloud file sharing provides many business benefits over traditional on-premise network attached storage. It enables organizations to consolidate infrastructure and remove duplicate silos of storage from multiple sites and office locations. Cloud file sharing reduces storage costs,…
The 5 Critical Questions to ensure you have protection against downtime How much downtime can your business handle before it starts to cause a real disruption to the bottom line? Studies show businesses of all sizes start seeing lasting effects…
Prior to the cloud era, most business information stayed on the corporate WAN. But now more corporate data traffic is going over the internet to sites like Salesforce.com, Dropbox and AWS. The problem is IT has limited visibility and control…
Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…
Zetta has been offering a different kind of cloud-based backup since their inception five years ago. Their “direct-to-cloud” backup solution doesn’t use any hardware on-site, just their software which runs on application servers and file servers in the data center.…
Most IT professionals go to a trade show to learn, after all, knowledge is the stock in trade for our industry. But what about the professionals in the storage eco-system, the individuals that actually create the solutions that IT professionals…
“The Cloud”, a ubiquitous term for near limitless storage and compute capacity, may seem like a fantasy to users but the infrastructure challenges it brings are very real indeed. Just ask the ‘hyper-scale’ companies that have developed their own systems…
Is there a road to zero storage costs in the future? From witnessing the ongoing storage pricing wars taking place amongst the industry cloud service providers (CSPs), this doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. In fact, some industry…
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