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IT Needs A Different Reason To Buy Tape

Posted on November 9, 2017 by George Crump

With the release of LTO-8 Tape media and hardware vendors are once again boasting about how affordable it is to store data on tape. With a compressed capacity of 30TB per tape, they are right in doing so. At Storage…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, LTO, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Scale, Tape
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StorNext System Evolves to Meet Increasing Data Performance and Storage Needs with StorNext6 Release

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

Organizations are struggling to deal with the problems of storing, protecting and sharing ever-increasing amounts of unstructured data. There are two primary causes of this struggle. First, too much of their primary data storage is consumed by “cold data” that…

Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, QOS, Quantum, Replication, SAN, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis

Open Software Defined Storage Becomes Enterprise Ready – SUSE Enterprise Storage Update

Posted on November 7, 2017 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage vendors claim “no vendor lock-in” as one of their mantras. While these solutions do allow the intermixing of various vendor hardware, the organization adopting the SDS solution is hopelessly locked into the SDS vendor from a software…

Tagged with: CEPH, Cloud, Flash, IoT, Metadata, NFS, Object Storage, Open SDS, Scale-Out, SDS, SUSE
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Amazon RE:Invent is for Storage Professionals

Posted on November 6, 2017 by George Crump

Amazon RE:Invent is right around the corner, and Storage Switzerland will be there for the first time shooting our famous ChalkTalk Videos and attending various analyst meetings and vendor briefings. Amazon AWS’ various storage offerings deserve serious consideration for storage…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Archive, Avere, AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB, SwiftStack
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Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger

Posted on November 2, 2017 by George Crump

Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…

Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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Simplifying File Migration and Modernization

Posted on November 1, 2017 by George Crump

There are plenty of solutions that promise to help an organization migrate, or transform, data in the cloud era. The problem is most of these solutions are just too complicated and try to do too much. Most organizations simply want…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis

How to Manage Data Without Putting it in Jail

Posted on November 1, 2017 by George Crump

Data growth requires a response. For some organizations, that response is upgrading to a more scalable higher performing NAS or an on-premises object storage. For others it is moving some data sets to public cloud storage. Historically, these migrations are…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, ROI
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Why is Data Protection Still an Art?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by George Crump

Data protection has been a key data center practice for as long as there have been data centers. It would seem that by now the art of data protection would be a science and that every operating system or environment…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, Hypervisor, NoSQL, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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How to Improve your Recovery Confidence

Posted on October 30, 2017 by George Crump

Most organizations have very low confidence in their ability to consistently recover data, whether from a minor outage or a major disaster. They’ve been through too many instances where data could not be recovered, took too long to be recovered,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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SlideShare: Hitting Your Data Protection Sweet Spot

Posted on October 27, 2017 by George Crump

The data protection process sometimes has objectives that seem to be in opposition to one another. On one side, the organization needs rapid and frequent data captures so that RPOs and RTOs are met. On the other side, there is…