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Protecting Against Open S3 Buckets

Almost every week there is another incident of an Amazon S3 storage bucket being left open for anyone to access. These openings allowed data ranging from personal details of wireless customers to 200 million voter records to be exposed for

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Webinar: 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,

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End-to-End Data Management – Primary Data Briefing Note

The objective of data management is to make sure the right data is on the right type of storage at the right time. The problem is most vendors are too myopic in their treatment of the process. Vendors either focus

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SlideShare: What’s Next in Storage for Managed Service Providers?

How to Move Beyond Backup, to DRaaS, Copy Data Management and Primary Storage The cloud has brought both risk and reward to MSPs. In today’s hybrid cloud world, MSPs must deliver consumption-based, private and public cloud offerings to their clients.

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StorageShort: The High Density Flash Performance Problem

Thanks to the ever increasing density of flash, petabytes of flash storage in a few rack units is now reality. Imagine fitting all of the data center capacity needs in a space smaller than half a rack. The problem, though,

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StorageShort: Designing a Multiple Location NAS

In an effort to find talent many organizations have multiple locations so employees don’t have to move across the country or suffer through multiple hour commutes. Technology is the key enabler to having a number of locations but there is

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A Hybrid Cloud is not Two Clouds

VMware starts the organization on the journey to the software defined data center. With their workloads freed from the bounds of physical hardware they look for ways to take advantage of the newfound application mobility. Destinations under consideration include both

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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?

The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what

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SlideShare: 10-Minutes to Cloud: How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing

Enterprises aren’t the only organizations that can benefit from big data. Medium and large businesses can too. The challenge is, can these businesses build the same big data infrastructure enterprises do? The short answer is, they can’t. But the secret

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What’s Next in Storage: Cloud to Cloud Data Movement

The writing’s on the wall. Eventually almost every organization will use cloud storage in one form or another. While the use cases may range from production applications to backup, the economics may be too appealing for an organization not to

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