The cost to store backups on-premises is already a significant expense for data centers to endure and the rapid growth in unstructured data is pushing budgets to the breaking point. Cloud Storage, because of its low cost and infinite scalability,…
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Lightboard Video: How to Lower the Cost of Backup Infrastructure
Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Data Management as a Service – Igneous Briefing Note
Data management is a project that many IT professionals and application owners feel they are too busy or don’t have enough expertise to undertake. Most data management tasks are big projects that take a lot of planning and continuous care…
Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, CapEx, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, WAN
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Reducing the High Cost of Data Management
Data Management is the process of ensuring data is on the right storage tier at just the right time. IT professionals that run the data management process are trying to strike a balance between saving the organization money by eliminating…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data management, Disk, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, ROI, Spectra Logic, Tape, Virtual machine
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Why Data Management is Failing
Data management companies are struggling to gain adoption. These companies offer to save customers money by moving data to the most appropriate tier of storage based on current needs. The thought is to have only a small fraction of data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Data management, Disaster recovery, GDPR, Migration, Object Storage, ROI
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Webinar: The Art of Storage Management
Any organization that takes a moment to study the data on their primary storage system will quickly realize that the majority (as much as 90 percent) of data that is stored on it has not been accessed for months if…
What does your data need?
Have you ever needed to get somewhere really quickly? Consider the things that go through your mind. This parallels how storage management is typically done in today’s data centers. But we could do better. For example, what if you lived…
Data Management vs. The Sock Drawer
One of the most mundane home cleanup tasks is re-organizing the sock drawer. Data Management has been the IT equivalent for years. It is an event that often requires someone from outside of the data center to come in and…
Why Data Management is Cool Again
Our top read article, by far, recently is “What is Data Profiling”. My colleagues Eric Slack and Colm Keegan also just hosted a well attended webinar, “How To Attain Sustainable Storage Savings“, now available on demand. At the core of…
Copy Data in the Cloud
While industry pundits and analysts yammer on about the unrelenting growth of data, the real issue for enterprise data centers and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), is keeping a lid on the extensive number of redundant copies of information that propagate…
Tagged with: Actifio, Business, Cloud, Data management, HP-UX, IBM, SAP AG, SNW Europe, VMware
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Stopping Storage System Sprawl
Unstructured data can come from a variety of sources including traditional office productivity files, rich media or data generated by sensors and cameras. It can also come from semi-structured environments like Exchange and SharePoint. Even though each of these examples…
Tagged with: Data Defined Storage, Data management, Microsoft SharePoint, Network-attached storage, SharePoint, SNW Europe, Tarmin, Unstructured data
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