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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,…
SlideShare: How To Leverage Cloud Storage for Hybrid VMware
The VMware environment, for most data centers, is the beginning of their cloud journey. But they struggle with the next step, moving applications or storage to the cloud. Sure, there are applications to migrate or replicate virtual machines to the…
More than a Re-Brand: HDS Becomes Hitachi Vantara
The big news out of Hitachi Next 2017 is the company is rebranding itself as Hitachi Vantara, combining the properties of Hitachi Data Systems, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group into a single integrated business. The goal of the new organization…
Why Has SDN Adoption Been So Slow? – Pluribus Networks Briefing Note
The move to commodity hardware changed the way data centers scale compute and storage resources. The network, for the most part, is being left out of the movement. Once an organization makes a network vendor selection, it has very few…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commoditization, Fabric, Hypervisor, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Switches, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Can Ransomware Infect Your Backups? – BackupAssist Briefing Note
It should come as no great surprise that ransomware is one of the scariest challenges for data protection people today. Black hats have figured out they can make more money faster by going after small and medium businesses than simply…
Tagged with: Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, Ransomware, SMB, SQL, Windows
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Scaling Out Backup
Secondary storage, the storage that holds among other things backup data, will potentially store 10X the amount of capacity primary storage will. In addition, organizations are expecting more from their backup solutions; faster recoveries, data management and copy data management.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, Scale, VM, VMworld2017
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How Are Backup Software Products Responding to Ransomware?
Backup software products are starting to adopt anti-ransomware features – and that’s a good thing. Ransomware has clearly expanded beyond consumers and is regularly attacking businesses and government entities. But not every backup company is convinced this is a problem…
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