Collaboration and Data Leak Prevention (DLP) seem to be at odds with each other. Collaboration requires sharing data and it seems like copying that data to a sharing service is the only viable alternative. The only way IT can protect…
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How to Prevent Data Leaks in a Collaborative World – MyWorkDrive Version 5 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Data Leak, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, MyWorkDrive, VPN
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Disaster Recovery with Cloud as Primary Storage
The first blog in this series discussed initially using a Cloud as Primary Storage solution for data protection and then in the second blog in the series, transitioning to using the Cloud as Primary Storage to store production data. In…
Why SDN Should be Part of Your Cloud Strategy
Organizations are incorporating public cloud resources into their deployment strategies. The organization may have a cloud-first initiative, or it may use the cloud as determined by the workload but the reality is that an overwhelming number of organizations deploy in…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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A Collective Hive for HCI – Maxta MxIQ Briefing Note
Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) simplifies many things for busy IT professionals. As their environment grows, HCI automatically scales with it, adding performance and capacity with each additional node. However, an area where HCI falls short, along with many other storage systems,…
Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, VDI, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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What Ever Happened to the Software Defined Data Center?
About a decade ago, VMware introduced the vision of a software-defined data center (SDDC). Unlike data centers of yesteryear, a software-defined data center was supposed to leverage intelligent software and commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that could…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hypervisor, IOPS, Machine Learning, NVMe, Object Storage, SDDC, Software Defined, Thin provisioning
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Webinar: Designing Storage Architectures for Data Privacy, Compliance and Governance
Managing data is about more than managing capacity growth; organizations today need to adhere to increasingly strict data privacy, compliance and governance regulations. Privacy regulations like GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act place new expectations on organizations that require them…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Creating a Data Center Compatible Cloud – Elastifile Briefing Note
Organizations spend months creating a “cloud strategy,” and then spend many more months attempting to execute that strategy, sometimes to successful completion but many times the project is abandoned. There are a multitude of problems when transitioning applications to the…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Latency, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, TCO
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eBook: Developing a Holistic Storage Security Strategy
The target of most cyber-attacks, like ransomware, is eventually the primary storage system that stores the organization’s most valuable data. If an attacker compromises the organization’s data, they either attempt to restore the data from backups or pay a ransom…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Consolidation, Cyber Security, Encryption, RackTop, Replication, Retention, Snapshots
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Re-setting the Bar for VMware Backups in the Cloud Era
In a world where IT is scrutinized based on the bottom line, it’s easy to deprioritize disaster recovery. Building out, refreshing and managing a dedicated infrastructure for disaster recovery requires significant capex investment and compounds the already heavy burden of…
Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Designing Backups for Data Privacy and Ransomware
Two external factors are forcing organizations to rethink their backup process and how they store backup data. The first is the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, which encrypts production data forcing the customer to pay for a “key” to decrypt it.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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