News of another data breach is becoming all too common of an occurrence. The cost to the organization is not just its reputation but increasingly results in punitive fines. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set a new…
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Primary Storage Should Secure Itself – RackTop Systems Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber, Encryption, GDPR, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, S3, SMB, Snapshot
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Multi-Cloud is a Reality – How to Deal With it – NooBaa Briefing Note
Multi-Cloud, the idea of using a variety of cloud service providers based on their capabilities or who has the best price sounds great. While it sounds great that organizations will have the foresight to systematically review and move workloads in…
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, GDPR, Hybrid, Migration, Multi-Cloud, NooBaa, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, Unstructured data
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Creating a Storage Performance Validation Practice – Virtual Instruments Briefing Note
Storage architects have the responsibility to place workloads properly on the right storage tier. Workload placement requires a careful balance between the correct level of performance and the right price. The problem is these architects do not have the tools…
Tagged with: Cloud, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SAN, SDS, SMB, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Webinar: NAS Refresh? – 5 Reasons to Consider the Cloud
Storage refreshes are something that every data center goes through. However, the most painful are NAS refreshes. It is not just the painful migration of data from the old NAS to the new NAS but also the tedious process of…
Meeting the Core Principles of Data Protection
As the data center modernizes, new initiatives and trends are impacting the data protection process. In our webinar, “5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018,” we discuss how things like Hybrid IT, Ransomware, application explosion,…
Tagged with: Cloud, dev/ops, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, Micro Focus, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot
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The Big Fail – Why is Enterprise File Sync and Share STILL Failing?
A recent Forrester survey indicated that 56% of enterprise respondents either have implemented an Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) solution or are in the process of installing one. At first glance, that looks good for EFSS vendors. However, on…
Tagged with: Cloud, EFSS, Encryption, file sync and share, Migration, NAS, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem
Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon AWS built their storage infrastructures on an object storage foundation that offered almost unlimited scale at extremely competitive prices. Object storage vendors adopted these architectures and made them more enterprise…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: How to Design Primary Storage for GDPR
As member countries turn the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into domestic law, vendor’s are focusing on secondary storage, backup, archive and disaster recovery. But what about primary storage? Is it possible to architect a primary storage system…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Disaster Recovery Planning – How to Get from Good To Great
A “great” DR plan is one that addresses one of the biggest concerns that organizations have over the disaster recovery process. “Will it work?” Getting a copy of data to the cloud is the beginning of a great DR plan…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Replication, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, KeepItSafe, Replication, RTO, Virtualization
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High Availability vs. Instant Recovery
All applications in a data center are critical to some degree, and while there are a few applications that are mission-critical, most applications can be down for at least a few minutes without seriously impacting the organization. The problem is…
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