Flash Storage dominates the headlines. But as a storage medium its availability is, at a minimum, constrained and more than likely the industry will see a shortfall of available flash for the foreseeable future. The problem is it takes billions…
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The Cost Savings of Using The Cloud as Primary VMware Storage
The cloud is a vast resource of compute and storage, all available on-demand as the organization needs it. Using cloud storage as VMware primary storage with compute remaining on-premises opens up many possibilities. In our last column we discussed how…
How to Use The Cloud as VMware Primary Storage
Cloud storage offers data centers almost limitless capacity and they can purchase that capacity as they need it. But to this point, most use cases for the cloud have been as a secondary storage target, a place to store archives…
How to Design a Self-Protecting NAS
All primary storage systems protect themselves in some way. Most provide protection from media failure by leveraging some form of RAID. They also provide snapshot technology to protect against data corruption or user entry error. Many also provide the ability…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disk, Disk array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Replication, Snapshot, Tape
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Can the Cloud Solve the Archive Problem?
The cloud seems like an ideal place to archive data. It provides a pay-as-you-grow model and enables the organization to begin to shrink the size of its on-premises storage footprint. The problem is, though, the three big providers (Amazon AWS,…
Preparing for Recovery
Most of the time IT spends focusing on disaster recovery planning is actually spent on protection, making sure data is being copied to a secondary storage system and a secondary site either by backup or replication. Some advanced recovery planners…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Cloud, Disaster, Disaster recovery, Disk, DRaaS, Infrascale, NAS, Protection, Quorum, Replication
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Is There Life After Tape?
People have predicted the death of tape for a long time. But the facts are that it remains the most cost-effective, safest way to store data for long periods of time. Even when you figure in the cost of the…
How Do You Improve Your RTO?
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the time it takes to recover an application or server so users can login and get back to work. IT is under constant pressure to reduce this time. There are two broad methods you can…
Is it Time to De-Tape Your Archive?
Enterprises want more value from their archived data assets but tape doesn’t really enable the real-time archive that organizations need. The challenges is that any enterprise in existence for 10 years or longer more than likely has terabytes, even petabytes,…
Does Disk Based Backup Require Deduplication Anymore?
Hardware-based deduplication legitimized the concept of backing up to disk. But deduplication alone is no longer as important as it used to be. The problem with hardware-based duplication is the data must be transferred to the backup appliance prior to…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, Flash, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, Tape
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