For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
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Why Tape still matters today
In our column, “What’s Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, my colleague George Crump discussed how cloud storage can be a cost effective alternative to onsite storage for active data, but where cold data is concerned it becomes a…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Posted in Blog
Overcoming the All-Flash Array Implementation Challenges
Eliminating “waits” allows customers, users, and applications to interact with the IT infrastructure more fluidly. As a result, IT professionals are focused on improving response times, and storage is getting much of the attention. The demand for performance is accelerating…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Cloudistics, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Migrate, MLC, NAND, SSD
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Posted in Article
The CryptoLocker Legacy – Another Reason for Strong Data Protection
When IT professionals think of data protection, they think of protecting that data from accidental deletion or catastrophic loss from a disk array failure. The goal of the data protection process is to maintain access to data when these events…
Backup is not Archive
In order to protect their data while dealing with explosive data growth, many organizations have started backing up their data to the cloud in an effort to reduce their storage and data center costs as well as obtaining data redundancy…
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
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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…
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