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Disaster Recovery Workshop: Dealing with New Requirements, Expectations, and Threats

Posted on October 8, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery (DR) is changing, and DR plans need to change with it. Legislative bodies want companies to not only prove their ability to recover from a disaster, but they have specific guidelines as to how long that effort can…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Cyber Security, Disaster recovery, dr, ML, Ransomware, Software Defined, VM
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Integrating On-Premises SDN with Cloud VPC

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

One of the best examples of software defined networking (SDN) in action is in the cloud. When organizations use compute and storage resources from Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds they don’t get to go into those data centers and configure…

Tagged with: Analytics, Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, SDN
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The State of the Software-Defined Data Center

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, CSP, Data Protection, Scale-Out, SDDC, SLA, Software Defined, TCO, Virtualization
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Dell Technologies World – The Dell Technologies Data Protection Strategy

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Dell Technologies is evolving its data protection strategy to emphasize data management. As it does so, it is focusing its portfolio on being both “software-defined” (in that solutions may be deployed on-premises as stand-alone software or pre-integrated into an appliance),…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Dell, Dell World, Dell World 2019, Flash, HCI, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization, VMware
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Cutting Through Multi-Cloud Complexity – Dell Technologies World Cloud Briefing Note

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Multi-cloud is a necessity. To meet varying cost and privacy requirements, data and workloads must exist and be able to traverse across on-premises private clouds that exist in core and edge data centers, as well as externally hosted off-premises infrastructure-as-a-service…

Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Dell, Dell World, Dell World 2019, HCI, SLA, Virtualization, VMware
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What is Data Management?

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Krista Macomber

A smart and holistic data management platform is the linchpin to enterprise competitiveness, but at this point in time, it remains largely a nirvana that storage managers are chasing. In this article, Storage Switzerland explains what constitutes data management, how…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Archive, CCPA, Containers, Data Privacy, eDiscovery, EU, GDPR, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, ML, NFS, NVMe, SLA, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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Data-as-a-Microservice: Solving the Storage Roadblock to Containerization – Hammerspace Briefing Note

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Containers and microservices are on the tipping point of disrupting the market, by serving the agility required by modern DevOps-centric business processes. However, serving persistent storage to containerized applications as they are moved into production is difficult with legacy data…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Hammerspace, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Snapshot
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Will the Operating System Kill SDS? – LINBIT Briefing Note

Posted on September 12, 2018 by George Crump

Software defined storage (SDS) continues to struggle for relevance in a crowded storage marketplace. While a few products are gaining a following, many more have either failed or been sold to other vendors. Additionally, now operating systems also pose a…

Tagged with: Containers, Deduplication, FC, FCoE, HA, Hypervisor, ISCSI, LINBIT, NVMe-oF, RAID, Replication, SDS, Thin provisioning
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Next Generation Networks Need to Deploy Rapidly

Posted on July 16, 2018 by George Crump

The one constant in the modern data center is scale. IT professionals are continuously under pressure to add additional servers, virtual machines and containers. With those additions comes the demand for more storage capacity and more storage performance. The storage…