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…
Today’s world is multi-cloud, as IT uses a range of cloud service providers to address varying compliance, cost, feature and performance requirements. This results in a highly complex environment for IT to provision, manage and monitor. File storage environments are…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and High Velocity Analytic workloads are going mainstream. Enterprises of all types and sizes want to seize the opportunity their data presents. As these workloads move from development to production, organizations face a significant challenge with…
Organizations are moving to private, hybrid and public cloud so they can create more flexible and more cost-efficient IT operations. The goal is to leverage software which interacts with quality, commodity hardware to create a programmable data center. Underpinning these…
It is 2019, why are we still backing up production storage? The simple answer is that most production storage systems can provide some level of data protection but they can’t fully replace backup. It’s time to consider what backup independence means.…
Benchmarks are necessary when trying to understand the performance characteristics of a particular storage system in a particular environment. The problem is they are susceptible to manipulation by vendors to get the best marketing results. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation…
Big data is largely heralded as the new end all be all for modern competitive advantage, that is underpinning storage requirements and buying decisions. Big data indeed can be invaluable in helping businesses to streamline operations, to unlock new revenue…
Virtualization has become the de facto standard for the majority of enterprise applications, but most management tools cannot provide virtual machine (VM) level visibility and control over input/output (I/O) performance and other capabilities such as replication. Steve Phillips, Principal Systems…
For over a decade Network Attached Storage (NAS) was the go to file storage device for organizations needing to store large amounts of unstructured data. But unstructured data is changing. While large file use cases are still prevalent, small file…
Backing up endpoints is a crucial aspect of a comprehensive, modern data protection strategy. Laptops and mobile devices are the primary means through which employees read and modify corporate data. Despite the ongoing shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS), users commonly save…
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