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Lightboard Video: Creating a Universal Infrastructure to Manage High Availability

Posted on March 18, 2019 by George Crump

Applications have seen explosive growth in the enterprise. Where just a few years ago there were three or four mission critical applications now there could be dozens. The organization is also more dependent on these applications than it has ever…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Ransomware, Redundancy, SDS, Snapshot, Veritas
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How to Use Copy Data Locally, Regionally and Globally

Posted on March 15, 2019 by George Crump

Copy Data is secondary copies of data that already exists on primary storage. These copies are used for recovery, reporting, analytics and testing. Most copy data management solutions are really just advanced snapshot management tools. They don’t provide a robust…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Addressing Data Protection Sprawl with Containers

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are dealing with the sprawl of data protection services, which adds cost in the form of redundant and underutilized infrastructure as well as management complexity. George Crump, Lead Analyst for Storage Switzerland, and Roger Stein, solutions marketing manager for…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Ransomware, Redundancy, SDS, Snapshot, Veritas
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Three Things Missing From Your Enterprise Cloud Backup Solution

Posted on March 14, 2019 by George Crump

Many organizations are considering switching to a cloud backup solution to meet their data protection needs. Cloud backup promises to reduce the data protection headache by reducing the investment in on-premises infrastructure. And while cloud backup does provide almost automatic…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, SLA
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Getting More Out of Your Storage with Copy Data Management

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Copy data sprawl is quickly getting out of hand. Enterprises are spinning up multiple copies of data to meet growing needs around processes such as retention, test and development, analytics and legal discovery without impacting the production storage system. These…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Using the Cloud to Improve Compliance

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The modern era of stricter compliance regulations and more privacy savvy consumers changes the backup and disaster recovery paradigms. It necessitates that enterprises obtain a complete, centralized and searchable data repository – as well as more sophisticated risk monitoring, management…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, SLA
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How Can On-Premises Data Protection Make Business Sense?

Posted on March 7, 2019 by George Crump

Cloud-based data protection is appealing and many IT planners are considering it as an option. Can on-premises data protection infrastructures still compete? An on-premises infrastructure still has some technical competitive advantages and with consumption based IT the cloud business model…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, SLA, Veeam
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Consolidation: The Key to Early NVMe Success

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As Storage Switzerland previously blogged, non-volatile memory express (NVMe) access protocols stand to add value to a host of applications, ranging from the performance-intensive newer workload set (e.g. artificial intelligence) to more traditional Tier 1 applications (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server).…

Tagged with: AI, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ML, NVMe, ROI, SAS, SCSI, SQL, Western Digital
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Does Microsoft Office 365 Need to be Protected?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

It is increasingly common for enterprises to offload mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange to cloud service providers; in fact, Microsoft’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-delivered Office 365 revenue has surpassed its conventional Office revenue since the fourth quarter of 2017, pointing to…