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Webinar: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It
IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
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Solving NAS Migration Pain – Komprise 2.7 Briefing Note
Every few years an organization needs to purchase a new network attached storage (NAS) system. The old system either has reached its capacity limits or no longer meets the performance expectations of new users and applications. The options for a…
Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix it
For most organizations backup, the process of regularly and consistently protecting production data, is fundamentally broken. As a result, these organizations have very little confidence in IT’s ability to recover data at all, let alone promptly. To try to fix…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hyperconverged, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Sprawl
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Stopping High Availability Sprawl – DH2i Briefing Note
Almost every organization has a group of applications that must always be available. The cost of downtime is so significant that IT will want to expend large chunks of the IT budget to make sure they are available. Because of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DH2i, Docker, HA, Replication, Sprawl, SQL, VM
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New Whitepaper: Understanding Cloud NAS Architectures
When organizations first start to leverage cloud resources they typically try to use the cloud to solve their biggest problems first; data protection and unstructured data management. The rapid and unprecedented growth of unstructured data has made both of these…
Can the Cloud Save IT From the Secondary Storage Deluge?
Primary storage is no longer the most expensive tier of storage. Secondary storage, storage that stores copies, backups and archives, is now far more expensive than primary storage. The growth of this tier threatens to bury the data center under…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Iron Mountain, Migration, Recovery, Restoration
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Unstructured Data Protection Should Integrate Archive
Backup and archive have always been on opposing ends of the data management spectrum. Conventional wisdom suggests that the two should never meet and cries of “backup is not archive” fill the air. The reality is, the “backup is not…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Compliance, Metadata, NAS, Retention, Unstructured data
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Is the Data Center Ready for Flash Archives? – Nimbus Data Briefing Note
Archiving, as a concept, looks great on paper. It alleviates primary storage capacity, simplifies data protection and lowers overall storage cost. The problem is when it is necessary to search for and retrieve data in that archive, or worst case…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archiving, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Nimbus Data, SSD, Tape
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Creating a Cloud Extension Instead of a Cloud Migration Strategy – Nexenta Briefing Note
As data centers consider the role cloud compute and storage will have in their organization’s IT strategy, they look for solutions to extend what they already have, not solutions that require them to start over in the cloud. One of…
Tagged with: Block, Cloud, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, Nexenta, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, SMB, Unstructured data
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