The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Actifio Multi-cloud Mobility and DR Automation
Cutting Vendor Lock-in – as well as costs – from the DRaaS Equation Disaster recovery (DR) is too expensive and too cumbersome to meet the near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) required by today’s business environment.…
Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, DataDriven2019, dr, DRaaS, Object Storage, RPO, RTO, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Key Security Features to Evaluate in Your Cloud Provider
Cloud storage services have evolved significantly in terms of their ability to provide data security, as well as their ability to comply with data privacy regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer…
Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
Posted in Blog
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Data Management vs Data Protection
Storing data comes with responsibilities, two of which are managing that data and protecting it. Many organizations however, focus most of their attention on protecting the data and almost no attention to managing it. However, focusing attention solely on data…
How are the Benefits and Challenges of the Cloud Evolving?
As the cloud continues to mature, organizations are also increasing their sophistication in terms of how they leverage the cloud. A survey by Osterman Research corroborates what Storage Switzerland is hearing from end users – where previously the cloud was…
MeetTheCEO: Cloud Daddy’s Spencer Kupferman
As businesses migrate more of their data and applications to the cloud, a more comprehensive and mature disaster recovery implementation is required. Cloud service providers have built a base layer of data protection capabilities that focus primarily on enabling recovery…
Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Attack, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Malware, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
MeetTheCEO: HotLink’s Lynn LeBlanc
Backups cannot be assumed to be safe today, against an emergence of more sophisticated malware. These new variants were designed to be discrete, often sitting idle and being copied across the backup repository to then attack slowly – all with…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disaster recovery, HotLink, Hybrid, Malware, Ransomware
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
How to Make One Thousand Snapshots Useful
Almost every modern storage system claims to support “thousands” of snapshots of production data without impacting performance. While some of the lack of performance impact claims have proven to be suspect, there is little doubt that today’s storage solutions support…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Reducing the Cost of Scaling Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions start innocently enough. The organization starts with two or three nodes and initially it handles all their compute, and storage needs quite well. As the environment scales because of the growth of the initial workloads or…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019
The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DAS, Data Protection, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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