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Developing a Comprehensive Data Migration Strategy

Posted on April 10, 2018 by George Crump

Many organizations are working on a cloud data migration strategy. The problem is just working on a cloud migration strategy is too narrow and shortsighted. The cloud is not a single destination. There are multiple cloud providers and it is…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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Utility vs. Solution – What’s Best for Enterprise Cloud Migration?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by George Crump

When IT needs to get something done once, or just occasionally, software utilities are a quick and easy way to accomplish the task at hand. Sometimes though, IT needs something more, a solution that will become part of the data…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, VM
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Why IT Needs a New Data Protection Strategy for Unstructured Data

Posted on March 7, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data has always been a sore spot for the data protection process. The growth in the number of files that make up unstructured data sets and the capacity that they consume now threatens to break the data protection model…

Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, BLI, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Restoration, Retention, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Enterprise Cloud Migration – 4 Problems to Solve

Posted on March 5, 2018 by George Crump

The biggest challenge any enterprise has to get over when migrating workloads to the cloud is SCALE! Large organizations have massive amounts of data; thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of terabytes of data. With this level of scale, migration…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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Can HCI Guarantee Application Performance?

Posted on January 26, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) promise simplicity; simpler management and simpler scaling. One of the challenges though is that as an organization scales it also starts to expect specific response times from specific applications. Priorities set in, and IT must assure the…

Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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Do You Still Need a Dedicated Backup Server?

Posted on January 8, 2018 by George Crump

For over a decade the classic data protection architecture included a server whose sole purpose was to receive data from endpoints. This server was responsible for pulling data from the endpoints or receiving data from the endpoints. It might also…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, Druva, Scale, Virtualization
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What’s Next in Enterprise Backup Appliances? INFINIDAT Backup Appliance Briefing Note

Posted on December 19, 2017 by George Crump

Backup Appliances come in two forms. Integrated appliances that have the backup software pre-installed on them and appliances that act as stand-alone systems so they can accept input from a variety of backup sources. The second type is probably more…

Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Encryption, Infinidat, NFS, Recovery, Replication, SMB
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No Room in the Data Center – Secondary Storage Needs Cloud Integration – Cohesity Briefing Note

Posted on December 14, 2017 by George Crump

Most data growth in the enterprise is happening because of secondary storage use cases like backup, archive, and data re-use for test/dev or analytics (also known as copy data). In most cases, the capacity of secondary data is 10 to…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication
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Ready for an All-Flash Comeback – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on December 7, 2017 by George Crump

Violin Systems was one of the first storage vendors to bring an all-flash storage system to market. While the company had early success in the market, a combination of fierce competition and poor management decisions lead to the company filing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, IOPS, Latency, NVMf, Replication, Scale, Snapshots, SSD, Violin Memory
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Cloud Backup? Yes, No or Sometimes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by George Crump

Cloud backup has several advantages over traditional on-site backup and one big negative; the data is no longer stored within the familiar confines of the data center. Even if the cloud backup solution provides robust encryption, many organizations have some…