While the per node cost of using premium hardware in Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 (HCI) is higher than the per node cost of using commodity hardware common to HCI 1.0, the total cost of ownership is significantly lower. The primary reason…
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The TCO of Premium Node Hardware for HCI
Tagged with: Axe, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, NVMe, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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15 Minute Friday: How to Move From Legacy DR to DRaaS
Most data centers still use a legacy DR strategy of replicating or even physically transporting backups to a dedicated disaster recovery (DR) site, or a secondary site owned by the organization. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) delivers a compelling…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Webinar: 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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Using Workload Simulation to Justify the Shift to NVMe
The introduction of the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage protocol brings with it a new storage performance tier. Whereas older Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standards were designed for slower-performing hard disk drive (HDDs) and…
Tagged with: Analytics, ATA, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, IOPS, NVMe, Object Storage, ROI, SANBlaze, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Using the Cloud to Integrate Backup and Archive – HubStor Briefing Note
For decades the best practice for backup and archive was to keep the processes separate. The storage hardware products that support traditional backups are typically very different from those that support archive. The software products are also very different and…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDP, Cloud, Corruption, Data Protection, HubStor, NFS, Ransomware, SMB, Unstructured data
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What Can Storage Learn From Server Consolidation?
Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Calculating the ROI of Data Protection Service Level Objective
Most data centers try to create a “best efforts” data protection strategy which treats all data and applications equally. Typically the organization uses one backup application, a single backup target device and replicates all data to a secondary site or…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Can Cloud Backup Fix Backup’s True Problem?
Cloud backup has the potential to ease backup pain while also lowering costs significantly. Most cloud backup solutions tend to focus on lowering costs, but while they claim to simplify operations, many cloud solutions are very similar to their on-premises…
Webinar: Three Steps to Modernizing Backup Storage
Backup software is continuously improving. Solutions like Veeam Backup and Replication deliver instant recoveries, enabling virtual machine volumes to instantiate directly on the backup device, without having to wait for data to transfer back to primary storage. These solutions can…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Cloudian, file sync and share, Hybrid, Object Storage, Perfromance, Replication, Veeam
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The Problem with Protecting the Distributed Enterprise with Traditional Backup Applications
More and more, data is being generated and processed outside of the traditional data center, for instance across a growing number of remote and branch offices as well as mobile devices and edge sites hosting Internet of Things (IoT) sensors.…
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