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SlideShare: How to Create an Infrastructure-less Backup Strategy
Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware
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SlideShare: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs
Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Is SAS All-Flash Good Enough?
Almost every storage vendor that used to just make SAS-based all-flash arrays is now shipping an NVMe Flash Array. New storage vendors are emerging that are skipping SAS-flash altogether and are starting with NVMe systems. The question facing IT planners…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SLA, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 2 – Storage Software
In the last blog Storage Switzerland discussed the heart and soul of a Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), the hypervisor. But a group of servers clustered via a hypervisor is not HCI, it is merely virtualization. For any virtualized environment to deliver…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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AI Requires a File Storage Overhaul
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming solidified as an important tool for competitive advantage, used by organizations of all sizes and across industries. Legacy network-attached storage (NAS) systems, however, are not equipped to provide the levels of throughput that these workloads…
Abstract Applications from Infrastructure for Better Business Outcomes
The number of applications requiring high availability (HA) for business continuity and Tier 0 levels of performance is growing. For IT professionals, delivering on these demanding service level agreements (SLAs) is no easy task as IT environments grow more complex…
The Impact of Changing Data Protection Requirements on Your Infrastructure
The new state of data protection, whereby enterprises must protect copy data quantities that are growing exponentially on a global basis with instant, up-to-the-minute recovery, places new demands on the secondary storage infrastructure. The key problem lies in the fact…
Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, Sprawl
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The Increasing Importance of Data Management in the Modern Data Center
Storage Switzerland recently wrote about the need for enterprises to move away from using backup processes for long-term data retention use cases. Backup implementations add value in providing high availability and fast (or instant) recovery of the enterprise’s most critical…
Tagged with: AI, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, EU, GDPR, Migration, ML, Ransomware, Unstructured data
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What’s Driving Data Protection Sprawl, and Why is it Such a Pain Point?
In today’s world of strict data privacy regulations, increasing and more sophisticated cyberattacks, and data-driven business intelligence, data protection is an important business priority. However, most organizations are dealing with the sprawl of data protection infrastructure that adds a significant…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Ransomware, Redundancy, RPO, RTO, SLA, Snapshot, Veritas
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Webinar: 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…
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