Every organization is trying to develop a cloud strategy, but as they try to move workloads to the cloud, they are running into the wall known as the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem says it is impossible for a distributed…
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ChalkTalk Video: Why Organizations Are Struggling with Getting Applications to the Cloud
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: High-Performance Storage for Machine Learning
Use cases like machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence all require massive amounts of performance. These systems use dedicated GPU accelerators for training machine learning algorithms and massive amounts of network bandwidth. These environments also push today’s all-flash systems…
ChalkTalk Video: Practical Strategies to a Hybrid Cloud
Almost every data center professional wants to create a hybrid cloud strategy, one that optimizes on-premises resources while leveraging the almost infinite capabilities of the cloud. The best approach is to start with what is known, on-premises storage, but move…
Yes You Need to Protect G-Suite – Spinbackup Briefing Note
While there are tools available to protect G-Suite, most require the implementation of a complete data protection solution that protects a variety of other operating systems and applications. The problem is many companies don’t need a backup software application that…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Malware, Ransomware, SaaS, SMB, Spinbackup
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How do MSPs Stay Relevant in the Cloud Era? – Datto Briefing Note
The SaaS backup market went from almost non-existent to very crowded in a few short years. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) quickly tried to reposition themselves from selling on-premises solutions to the cloud-based solutions their customers were demanding. Several companies emerged…
How to Scale Recovery In Place Data Protection – Quest Data Protection Portal
Recovery time and recovery point objectives continue to become more narrow. IT has less time than ever to bring an application back online, and users are less tolerant than ever of data loss. To meet these challenges, IT is turning…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hypervisor, Quest, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
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Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery
The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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What to do When Taking Over a Data Protection Nightmare – One College’s Journey to Simplified Data Protection
Data protection is hard. The process has to, in someway, interact with almost every server, virtual machine, application, network interface and storage system. The problem is many data centers make the situation worse by buying multiple data protection software and…
All-Flash Should Internally Tier
In a recent webinar “How to Create A Two-Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage”, Storage Switzerland discussed the concept of a two-tier data center. The goal is to reduce the overall number of storage systems in the data center…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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