When migrating to new technology, it is always important to conduct a careful cost/benefit analysis, to understand what the return on the new investment will be. It is also necessary to be sure that the investment will provide desired outcomes…
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Tired of Backup Storage Capacity Planning? Look to the Cloud
As recently discussed by Stephen Aldous, Principal Product Manager for Carbonite, and George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, backup purchases are difficult to budget for and are often an afterthought. Additionally, backup infrastructure typically jumps from periods of underutilization, to…
White Paper: Protecting the Distributed Enterprise
Organizations, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, are becoming more global. The problem is that a global organization means distributed data centers. It is not uncommon for an organization to have multiple data centers, remote offices with applications and thousands of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, RPO, RTO, SLA
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Posted in White Paper
Is Scaling Splunk Stressing Your Architecture? Evaluate SmartStore
The need to solve data problems at scale is arguably the most prominent storage driver today — whether hardware, software or cloud services. In this regard, Splunk is quickly becoming a textbook use case. Splunk is an application that analyzes…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, EC, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What is the Best Way to Store Inactive Data?
In today’s data deluge, it is a challenge for IT professionals to get a comprehensive and confident grasp on all of the data that their organization is storing – never mind how that data is actually being used. The reality…
Analyst Opinion – Time to End Cloud Egress Fees
One of the most common complaints from organizations that have moved at least some workloads to the cloud is the unpredictability of cloud billing, specifically as it relates to egress fees and transactional IO fees. Egress fees are the price…
MeetTheCEO: Quantum’s Jamie Lerner
Video and digital content is quickly growing to comprise a majority of the world’s data. Media and entertainment companies in particular are ingesting videos at the fastest streaming performance, sharing high-resolution content in real time, and protecting and preserving these…
Tagged with: Cloud, Digital Content, Hybrid, Infrastructure, Media, MeetTheCEO, Quantum, Replication, Software Defined, Unstructured data
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
SlideShare: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud
Most storage consolidation strategies fail because they attempt to consolidate to a single piece of storage hardware. To successfully consolidate storage, IT professionals need to look at consolidation strategies that worked. Server consolidation was VMware’s first use case. It was…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, ML, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
How to Avoid Cloud Backup Pitfalls
Data protection becomes more challenging as enterprises become more distributed. Data is distributed across core and edge data center environments, and on and off-premises applications and infrastructure resources. This data must be readily accessible by users regardless of their location…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, RPO, RTO, SLA
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
SlideShare: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Endpoint Data Strategy?
As organizations and their employees become more distributed, a case can be made that endpoints (laptops, tablets and smartphones) are some of the most critical pieces of technology in the organization. The problem is most organizations haven’t revisited their endpoint…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
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