The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to go in effect in a matter of months, yet according to a SpiceWorks Survey, only 9% of US IT professionals feel they have a good understanding of the regulation.…
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How Concerned Should US Data Centers Be About GDPR?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Can Software Defined Networking Bring Scale to HCI? – Big Switch HCI Briefing Note
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of those technologies that look great on the whiteboard. The idea of collapsing the compute, storage and networking tiers into one, and creating an infrastructure that automatically scales as each node is added to the…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hyperconverged, Redundancy, SAS, SATA, SDN, SSD, VM, VSAN
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How to Prevent a Cloud Migration Boomerang
Recent studies indicate that as many as 50% of cloud migrations need to move back into the data center. While there are many reasons for this boomerang effect, lack of data consistency is one of the most common. The CAP…
Tagged with: Avere, CAP, Capacity, Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale
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Webinar: The Best VMware Public Cloud Backup & DR Options
5 Requirements for True Cloud Based VMware Backup & Disaster Recovery Managing data center infrastructure can be costly and complex. VMware continues to push the envelope of infrastructure efficiency through virtualization that enables customers to deploy infrastructure when needed in…
Did HCI Create a Storage Problem to Solve a Storage Problem?
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) seems like a dream come true for IT professionals trying to deal with rapid data growth. HCI is built from a cluster of nodes, with each node providing compute, storage performance and storage capacity. When the organization…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cluster, HCI, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Why and How to Change Backup Solutions – Catalogic Briefing Note
Almost every organization is looking for a better backup solution. Given the number of new solutions that appear on the market, seemingly every day, IT needs to decide why they need to change backup solutions and then how to replace…
Tagged with: BLI, Block Level Backup, Catalogic, Cloud, dr, MS-SQL, NAS, Ransomware, Retention, SQL, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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How to Backup Big NAS – Igneous Briefing Note
One of the top use cases for a network attached storage system (NAS) is to be the catchall for unstructured data to make it easy to distribute data to compute in a shared infrastructure for use by many applications. The…
Can HyperConvergence Work at the Edge? – StorMagic Briefing Note
Edge computing, remote offices, branch offices (ROBO), small data centers, and IoT use cases are on the rise. Most research predicts that the amount of data stored outside the data center will be 40X more than what is stored inside…
Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-convergence, Hypervisor, IoT, Mirroring, ROBO, SAN, Scale, StorMagic, VM
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Webinar: Considering Hyperconverged for Your Enterprise? Three Key Questions to Ask
Over the last few years, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments have been on the increase. HCI combines server, storage and networking into a single system building block, however, it introduces many new complexities into your environment. Join Storage Switzerland and Datrium…
Webinar: 5 Key Trends That Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018
And how to counter them Organizations are facing increasing businesses continuity and resiliency challenges in 2018. Much of these pressures – such as security threats, an increase in the number of mission critical applications, and data shifting to the cloud…
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