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ChalkTalk Video: Hyperscaling Data Protection

Posted on August 30, 2017 by George Crump

One of the data protection challenges IT professionals face is dealing with the growth of protected copies of data. Traditional systems simply scale up and eventually hit a wall that forces an upgrade or the purchase of additional systems. The…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: The Keys to Hybrid IT Success

Posted on August 30, 2017 by George Crump

As data centers look to the cloud they are faced with the very real challenges of dealing with sprawl, managing growth and ever increasing complexity. Growth though is not bad, it means the business is growing. Growth, however, needs to…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, VM, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: What Keeps IT Up at Night?

Posted on August 30, 2017 by George Crump

While the industry talks about clouds (public, hybrid and private), what keeps IT up at night is dealing with storage refreshes, defeating ransomware, maintaining application availability and controlling costs. These problems have been with IT years, but they are worse…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Fabric, Hybrid, ioFABRIC, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SDS, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: What is Composable Storage?

Posted on August 29, 2017 by George Crump

As the data centers scale, guaranteeing critical applications, the performance need to meet demands of users becomes very important. The problem is most flash arrays, if they provide a quality of service (QoS) capability at all, can only deliver a…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale, VMworld2017
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How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications

Posted on August 28, 2017 by George Crump

Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, RAM, SAN, SMB, Snapshot, SoftNas, SSD
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Distributed Storage Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 28, 2017 by George Crump

Distributed storage offers more capability than traditional scale-out solutions. They scale further, are more granular and have a better multi-site/multi-cloud model. But distributed systems are typically viewed as the storage system for the next generation data center, and while they…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Encryption, Flash, Hedvig, Hypervisor, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SDS, VM
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Is There A Safe Place for Prosumer Data? – Morro Briefing Note

Posted on August 24, 2017 by wcurtispreston

Prosumers and small businesses sometimes create significant amounts of data that are the lifeblood of their business. Examples include (but certainly aren’t limited to) photographers, videographers, healthcare clinics, as well as architecture and CAD design firms. Even hobbyists in these…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, Morro, NAS, RAID, SMB
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The Always-On Data Fabric – ioFABRIC FMS Briefing Note

Posted on August 23, 2017 by George Crump

While most software defined storage (SDS) solutions offer a degree of data services consolidation within a single data center, they don’t extend that consolidation of services across locations and into the cloud. Each location is discrete and needs separate management.…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Fabric, FMS2017, ioFABRIC, Migration, RPO, RTO, SDS
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Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?

Posted on August 22, 2017 by George Crump

An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Do You Need to Retain End-User Data?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by George Crump

An end-user data strategy for most organizations begins and ends with data protection. Certainly the ability to backup and recover user devices is critical and the most high profile component of the strategy, but retention of end-user data may be…