The scope of a disaster is based on its sphere of influence. A major disaster impacts a wide region and causes hundreds of businesses to go into disaster recovery mode. A minor disaster impacts only a single organization and often…
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Minor Disasters Need Major Attention
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Can You Share Files Without File Sync and Share?
Enterprise IT departments have struggled with file sharing for some time. The traditional solutions were deemed by many users to be passé and not in keeping with modern workflows. This caused many users to resort to consumer-grade solutions, leading to…
The Cost Savings of Using The Cloud as Primary VMware Storage
The cloud is a vast resource of compute and storage, all available on-demand as the organization needs it. Using cloud storage as VMware primary storage with compute remaining on-premises opens up many possibilities. In our last column we discussed how…
How to Archive Video and Audio But Still Find it – Archive360 Briefing Note
This week at Microsoft Ignite, the Azure team announced it added some interesting features to its object storage platform that dramatically increase the value of storing data in the Azure cloud. These features are just now beginning to appear in…
Tagged with: Archive, Archive360, Audio, Backup, Cloud, Metadata, Microsoft Ignite, Object Storage, Video
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SlideShare: Endpoint Backup is not Enough – You Need an End-user Data Strategy
More data outside of the data center is staying on endpoints and in the cloud than ever before. That means the risks to that data are also at an all time high. Plus regulations encompassing end-user data are also increasing,…
How to Use The Cloud as VMware Primary Storage
Cloud storage offers data centers almost limitless capacity and they can purchase that capacity as they need it. But to this point, most use cases for the cloud have been as a secondary storage target, a place to store archives…
SlideShare: NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and Beyond – Everything You Need to Know
NVMe is an industry standard protocol designed specifically for memory-based storage like flash drives. It unleashes flash arrays from the chains of SCSI that hold it back. Register for our on demand webinar and learn what NVMe and NVMe over…
Does File Sync and Share Create A Data Deduplication Problem?
File sync and share is here to stay, and enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) is how most enterprises add this functionality to their environment. The question is whether the addition of this new service adds additional problems. For example,…
How to Design a Self-Protecting NAS
All primary storage systems protect themselves in some way. Most provide protection from media failure by leveraging some form of RAID. They also provide snapshot technology to protect against data corruption or user entry error. Many also provide the ability…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Disk array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Snapshot, Tape
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Can the Cloud Solve the Archive Problem?
The cloud seems like an ideal place to archive data. It provides a pay-as-you-grow model and enables the organization to begin to shrink the size of its on-premises storage footprint. The problem is, though, the three big providers (Amazon AWS,…
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