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SlideShare: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, IOPS, Scale, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
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Understanding the ROI of Cloud as Primary Storage
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
Don’t Forget Data Protection When Selecting Cloud Providers
The cloud is good at availability and data durability. If there is an outage cloud providers have an excellent track record of getting their services back online quickly and providing access to the latest copy of data. What if though,…
Storage Consolidation Requires Cloud Archive
Managing one of something is usually easier than managing five of something. Indeed, when it comes to storage systems, it is easy to manage one vast storage array than it is five to ten individual ones. Consolidated systems focus much…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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The Evolution of Ransomware – Is Backup Safe?
When ransomware first appeared in data centers, it had a simple attack pattern. Once it landed inside the data center, the malware tried to encrypt every file as fast as possible. If IT didn’t have good backups, the organization was…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, Snapshots
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Solving the Software Defined Storage Bottleneck – Mellanox Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts commodity storage hardware so that it can be used in a scale-out architecture, but this can create a bottleneck between the CPU and the storage media. In many cases, the latency of hard disk drives…
Tagged with: Cloud, CPU, Flash, Mellanox, NVMe, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, Virtualization
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GDPR is for Everyone – Why All Businesses Need A Data Privacy Policy
Many IT Planners look at the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a distinctly European problem. The reality is the GDPR and regulations like it, impact businesses around the world. GDPR impacts any business that does business…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Retention, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Decisions the Enterprise Must Make When Considering Cloud Backup
In our first column we discussed what cloud providers needed to provide to make the enterprise more comfortable with using the cloud for backup. In this entry we discuss how to choose the right cloud provider and give an example…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Megacloud, Migration, NAS, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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Software Defining Secondary Storage – Quest QoreStor Briefing Note
Secondary storage systems primarily store backup and archive data. These systems often store ten to twenty times the capacity of primary storage systems. Vendors realize the opportunity and are now flooding into the market. Most of the solutions are turnkey…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Encryption, MS-SQL, NFS, Quest, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, Software Defined, VM
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The Myth of NoSQL Data Protection
There is a debate circling the topic of NoSQL data protection. A common myth is that because these environments automatically create replicas, data protection isn’t needed. Replicas protect the NoSQL environment from a hardware failure within a node or even…
Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Deduplication, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO
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