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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c

Posted on December 17, 2019 by George Crump

Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
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What is a Second-Generation Cloud Strategy?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by George Crump

Adoption of cloud services is following a trend similar to on-premises data center infrastructure. Many data centers begin using a single infrastructure vendor, compromising flexibility for the assumed simplicity of a single solution. As data centers evolve, they gravitate toward…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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19 Minute Webinar: Making Multi-Cloud Work

Posted on September 17, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud seems to be the next big thing in the public cloud. With multi-cloud, an organization can move applications between cloud providers to take advantage of better pricing or better technology. While it is relatively easy to migrate an application…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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The State of Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud

Posted on August 20, 2019 by George Crump

Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud tend to be the direction that most organizations are heading with their cloud strategy. The problem is the path to both of these cloud strategies is full of unexpected twists and turns. What is Hybrid-Cloud? While these…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Egress Fees, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Replication
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SlideShare: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies

Posted on August 16, 2019 by George Crump

Many businesses are eager to initiate a cloud migration strategy and take advantage of the economic benefits that clouds offer. However, concerns regarding vendor lock-in, proprietary technology, and hidden costs have served as a deterrent for a large number of…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
Posted in Slideshare

Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud

Posted on July 31, 2019 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud is a hot topic right now in IT circles. Instead of being locked into a single cloud, organizations can shift workloads between clouds as needed. Multi-cloud enables them to receive the best pricing possible on cloud services and resources.…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

Posted on July 30, 2019 by George Crump

When a company begins its cloud journey, they often assume they need to move everything to one of the “big 3” (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute). Many organizations want to maintain control of their data and leverage only…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Egress Fees, File Virtualization, IOPS, Madison Cloud, OPEX, Scale, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Is Best of Breed the Next Generation of Cloud?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud provider landscape is dominated by a few large mega-cloud providers that attempt to provide a wide range of applications, services, compute, and storage to their customers. However, a new wave of cloud providers is emerging that focus on…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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15 Minute Webinar: Implementing and Leveraging Multi-cloud and Second Generation Cloud Strategies

Posted on July 24, 2019 by George Crump

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
Posted in Webinar

Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline

Posted on July 3, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…