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Eliminating Stub Files for a Better Archive

Posted on January 23, 2019 by George Crump

The case for archiving is beyond compelling. Most organizations don’t access data once it is older than 90 days. In most cases, inactive data can consume 85% or more of the organization’s primary storage capacity. Moving inactive data to secondary…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Understanding the 5 Most Common Oversights in a DRaaS Strategy

Posted on January 22, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is potentially one of the best use cases for cloud resources. DR sites owned by the organization are expensive to set up and maintain as well as challenging to get to when a disaster…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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SlideShare: Tips for The Weekend – Stop the Unstructured Data Madness

Posted on January 18, 2019 by George Crump

Most organizations are not satisfied with their ability to backup, recovery and correctly retain unstructured data. The combination of unprecedented growth and increased scrutiny caused by regulations like GDPR and CCPA is pushing organizations to the brink. It’s time to…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, CCPA, Cloud, eDiscovery, GDPR, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Designing Cloud Storage for the Data Center, the Edge, and the Cloud

Posted on January 17, 2019 by George Crump

When most vendors talk about solving an organization’s storage problems, they typically are talking about solving their challenges in one of three categories: the data center, the edge or the cloud. The reality is that even within these three categories,…

Tagged with: Backup, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Replication, SaaS, Snapshots
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How Data Centers Can Implement Open Networking Now

Posted on January 17, 2019 by George Crump

The use of Open Networking promises operational value, data center flexibility and a reduction in the cost of network infrastructure. Next Generation SDN (Software Defined Networking) promises automation, increased agility and a reduction in operational costs of data center networking…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, IBN, Migration, NOS, Open Networking, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Virtualization
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HCI 2.0 Delivers Enterprise Class Performance

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

One of the initial appeals of hyper-converged infrastructure is its use of commodity hardware which in theory lowers costs. The reality is that most commodity hardware isn’t able to fully utilize high-performance CPUs, internal connectivity and high-performance NVMe media, which…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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Is the Cost of Switching Backup Solutions Worth the Cloud Gains?

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations look to change data protection software for a variety of reasons. Two of the most popular involve the cloud; cloud backup storage and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). There are many problems though with switching software and the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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Protection Service Levels – Sometimes OK is OK

Posted on January 16, 2019 by George Crump

In my last blog “The Problem with Gold-Only Data Protection Service Levels” we looked at how to design a gold service level for data protection and what the pros and cons of that approach are. In this entry, we look…

Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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How to Evolve From Unstructured Data Protection to Unstructured Data Management

Posted on January 15, 2019 by George Crump

A recent report from Igneous, “The State of Unstructured Management 2018,” indicates that most IT professionals are not satisfied with their ability to meet organizational expectations about the backup, recovery, and retention of their unstructured data sets. The value that…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Privacy, Igneous, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, ROI, UDM, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud

Posted on January 14, 2019 by George Crump

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…