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What is True Cloud-Based VMware Backup?

VMware specific backup solutions have been around for years, and most of them have added some form of cloud connectivity to their feature set. But, most of these options simply use the cloud as a digital dumping ground and don’t

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Webinar: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.

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Webinar: Flash to Flash to Cloud – Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare

Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night: How to keep up with application performance demand How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store How to protect that data so

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SlideShare: Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals – Three Capabilities to Look For

This was the sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent. In this webinar listen to Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: The different tiers of the Amazon storage offering How to create

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How Concerned Should US Data Centers Be About GDPR?

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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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