The cloud was supposed to be the answer to IT’s backup dilemma; instead, it in some ways has made the situation worse. In this on demand webinar Storage Switzerland and Microsoft Azure have a roundtable discussion on what’s gone wrong…
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SlideShare: How to Design a Compliant and GDPR Ready Collaboration System
Users need to collaborate on projects, which means sharing file data with other internal users as well as external business partners. More often than not, to accomplish this file sharing, they leverage cloud-based file-sync and share solutions. The problem is…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Collaboration, Cyber Attack, File Sharing, Malware, Ransomware, SME
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The Top 5 Reasons VMware Backups Still Break
Lack of Auto-Discovery Lack of auto-discovery is an issue for most backup solutions. As virtual machines and physical hosts are constantly being added to a VMware environment, many backup applications can’t auto-discover them. This means a new VM can go…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Performance vs. Security vs. Management – How to Solve the Primary Storage Paradox
Applications and users demand unprecedented levels of performance, cyber-threats like ransomware require new levels of security and access control, and organizations are intolerant of any form of downtime or data loss. At the same time, they need to manage data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, dr, Encryption, Flash, Fragmentation, Migration, RackTop, Ransomware, Replication, Retention
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Webinar: What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups? And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Securing Backups from Ransomware
Ransomware “developers” know that organizations are likely to count on their backups as a primary point of recovery if they are infected. As a result, these malware programs attempt to encrypt or disrupt backup operations. Other cyber attacks may even…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, Replication
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How is Storage IO Different for AI vs. HPC?
Most Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects start off as a skunkworks project that when ready for production is tossed over the wall for IT to handle. In many cases, IT tries to store the AI workload on an existing network attached…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, WekaIO
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True WAN Optimization is not Deduplication – Bridgeworks Briefing Note
The four walls of the data center no longer confine users, applications, and data. Organizations are multi-site, and users want to work from anywhere. Making “work from anywhere” a reality still requires data and data still has gravity. Data has…
Tagged with: Bridgeworks, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Latency, Redundancy, WAN
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Cyber-Secure Storage Requires More Than Encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of building a secure storage system, but organizations need more than just encryption. Encryption works when the outside attacker can’t authenticate themselves, but if the outside attacker can compromise a user or admin account, then…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, RackTop, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
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Current Data Protection Infrastructure Is Broken
Some of the more sizeable shifts in the data center include the move from Mainframes to Open Systems and network computing, the move to client-server computing, and the move to a virtualized server infrastructure. Each of these shifts spawned several…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization
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