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Object Storage or NAS for File Sync and Share

Posted on August 27, 2018 by George Crump

The primary motivation behind using file sync and share used to be the “sync” component. Now, however, it is sharing. In an era where devices are almost always connected to the internet, syncing is less of a priority, although ubiquitous…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, EFSS, Encryption, File Sharing, GDPR, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SME, Software Defined
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Why Does the Network Team Want SDN?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by George Crump

The network team has a lot invested in traditional networking and may resist the move to a software-defined network (SDN), but given the pace of growth and expansion of the data center, they may not have an option. The network…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Do You Need Multi-Cloud Backup?

Posted on August 23, 2018 by George Crump

During our recent webinar, “Three Reasons Cloud Backup is Broken and How to Fix it“, an attendee asked “should I have a multi-cloud backup strategy?” Many organizations use multiple clouds for their production workloads. Moving a workload between clouds to…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, IoT, Microsoft Azure, ROI
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Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient?

Posted on August 23, 2018 by George Crump

Cloud providers are sometimes held up as models of efficiency but are they really? Or, do cloud providers just hide inefficiency better? Cloud providers invest much of their resources in automation, so that functions within their data centers happen transparently…

Tagged with: Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Why Do Storage and vAdmin Teams Want SDN?

Posted on August 22, 2018 by George Crump

While it should seem like someone else’s concern, no other group within IT should want software-defined networking (SDN) more than the storage administration and virtualization vAdmin groups. SDN’s promise to all the storage and vAdmin teams is to perform their…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How to Protect Applications Running in Google Cloud – HYCU Software Briefing Note

Posted on August 21, 2018 by George Crump

When they are migrating or creating cloud-native applications, organizations need to consider how best to protect those applications. Most cloud providers provide very good high availability but don’t provide robust point-in-time recovery capabilities. Recovery from data corruption, user error and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Cyber Attack, Google, HYCU, Hyperconverged, Nutanix, Point-in-Time, Snapshot
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More than Migration: Developing a Holistic Cloud Strategy

Posted on August 20, 2018 by George Crump

Most organizations are considering how to take advantage of the tremendous resources made available by the cloud. The first step for many of these organizations is to create a cloud migration strategy. As part of this strategy, the organization decides…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, SMB, SoftNas
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What Happens When You Push the DRaaS Button?

Posted on August 20, 2018 by George Crump

In case of a disaster, a traditional cloud backup application needs to transfer all data across limited internet bandwidth and back to the data center or the new location. The bandwidth restrictions make cloud recovery a time consuming process that…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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SlideShare: How to Create a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan that Actually Works

Posted on August 17, 2018 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, RAID, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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White Paper: Storage Diversity vs. Storage Consolidation

Posted on August 16, 2018 by George Crump

The advantages of storage consolidation, better utilization lowered operational costs, seem like compelling reasons for IT to consolidate all their storage systems down to a single system. Why then is the data center becoming more and more storage diversified? There…