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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…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, ML, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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eBook: Are You Evolving Your Unstructured Data Management Strategy?

Posted on January 14, 2019 by George Crump

Unstructured data is changing. What was once a relatively small data set made up mostly of user home directory data is now a massive data set that is proliferating and is made up of much more than just user data.…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Data Privacy

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

Data privacy came sharply into view in 2018 when in May the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. The data protection components of the regulation are challenging enough, but GDPR added a new wrinkle, “the…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, file sync and share, GDPR, Hot2019, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Latency Hurdle – Hybrid Cloud Storage Workarounds

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

When organizations attempt to create a hybrid cloud storage architecture to manage costs better and ease on-premises storage requirements they face a significant hurdle, dealing with the latency between on-premises storage and cloud-based storage. The transfer of files between these…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Storage Tips for The Weekend – Stop the Unstructured Data Madness

Posted on January 10, 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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The Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

Public Cloud Storage solves many of the challenges facing IT planners as they try to address the rampant growth of data within their data centers. Storing this ever growing quantity of data is causing problems for both primary and secondary…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Consumption Based Data Management Providing Peace of Mind

Posted on January 4, 2019 by George Crump

Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…