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Briefing Note: What to do if you can’t afford an All-Flash Array
The concept of an all-flash data center is very appealing, but for many data centers an upgrade to even a hybrid array is outside of their budget. Also, implementing a new all-flash array or even a hybrid array has more…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Cloud, Cloudistics, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid array, SSD, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Future Proofing the Storage Reseller
Storage resellers are in a precarious situation. They have to differentiate not only themselves from other storage resellers theyat have to differentiate themselves from storage manufacturers that are often tempted to have a direct relationship with the reseller’s customers. On…
Creating an Object Storage System that Bridges the gap to Tape
All data is not equal. It needs to be stored on different types of medium depending on the use case. Even within the archive dataset, all data is not created equal. Just like there are tiers of storage for primary…
Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Hard disk, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Using Open Data Management to enable IT Transformation
Enterprises are looking for a way out. Out of the trap of a data center made up of closed systems and into a data center that is open so that they can drive down costs and be more responsive to…
SlideShare: 3 Important Factors for MSPs Adding Cloud Backup to Their Portfolio
Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
The Anatomy of a Consolidated Storage System
It has long been a goal of IT professionals to consolidate the storage infrastructure to a single storage system that would meet both the performance and long-term capacity needs of the data center. This goal however has proven to be…
Tagged with: Cache, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, RAID, RAM
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Challenge of Protecting Next Generation Databases
Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, Deduplication, Next Generation, NoSQL, RPO, RTO, SQL, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What is Converged Data Management?
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Flash, Replication, ROI, Rubrik, VM
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