The primary goal of a data management strategy is to reduce storage costs. Achieving that goal requires that at some point data will have to move from primary storage to a less expensive secondary storage. The movement of data between…
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How to Protect the Entire Hybrid Cloud – Druva Briefing Note
Most organizations use the cloud in a hybrid manner. Some applications and workloads remain on-premises, while some are transitory between on-premises and the cloud, and still others are cloud only. The distributed IT model puts a new strain on the…
Developing a Practical Cloud Strategy for Traditional Data Centers
Many organizations want to develop a cloud strategy, but most don’t know where to begin. As a result, the organization stumbles into the cloud, often starting with using the cloud as a secondary backup storage area, with the hope that…
Tagged with: Archive, Bursting, Cloud, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Virtualization, Zerto
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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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What is Tape as a Service?
Tape should be a critical component of every data center. As a medium, it is cost effective and easy to transport. It also provides diversity as an offline alternative media choice to hard disk based technology. The problem is that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Disk, Iron Mountain, Malware, Migration, Recovery, Tape, Tape as a Service
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Paper: How to Design a High Performance, Cost Effective and Secure Storage Infrastructure
There are plenty of expectations for production storage systems. Users want it fast, managers want it cost effective, and executives want it secure. Additionally, the system has to protect data from hardware failure, software bugs, and user mistakes. Meeting all…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Software Defined
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White Paper: How to Reduce Secondary Storage Infrastructure Size and Cost
Secondary storage does more than just store backups. It also serves as storage for archive data, IoT data and support copy data use cases like test development and reporting. As a result, the infrastructure requirements for secondary data have grown…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, IoT, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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How to Turn Email into Knowledge – MailJive Briefing Note
In the digital age, organizations have countless ways in which they can communicate, but email remains the most popular. Email though is used for far more than just communication. The organization, rightly or wrongly, uses it to store documents, contact…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Encryption, Email, HTTPS, MailJive, Retention, SSL
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What Type of Cloud Provider Do You Need?
IT’s impression of the cloud has evolved over the past few years. Most IT professionals see the cloud not as a competitor but as another tool in the IT toolbox. Like any other tool, when used in the right circumstances…
Mergers and Data Protection – The Cost of Doing Nothing
One of the most significant challenges when two organizations merge is what to do with the data protection process. In all likelihood, before the merger, each organization had its data protection practices and policy. The overwhelming tendency is to do…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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