For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Data Protection is the Key to Hyperconverged Adoption – HYCU Briefing Note
Most HCI systems are first purchased to be the platform for a specific greenfield project within an already busy data center. The goal is to expand HCI use as new projects come online or old ones are ready for IT…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Purpose Built, Recovery
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What Went Wrong with Enterprise File Sync and Share – MyWorkDrive Briefing Note
Sometimes IT vendors are guilty of answering questions that no one is asking. Such is the case with enterprise file sync and share (EFSS). For the most part, users just want to share office files with other colleagues and occasionally…
Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, File Share, FS&S, GDPR, MyWorkDrive, NAS, Remote, Silo, TCO
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Paper: 3 Steps To Ending The Primary Storage Nightmare
The next step in all-flash performance is NVMe. Systems equipped with NVMe support promise to increase performance and lower latency. But, IT professionals want to know if their data centers can take advantage of NVMe and how they should plan…
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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