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Webinar: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide

Posted on May 10, 2018 by George Crump

Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from…

Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
Posted in Webinar

Webinar: Three Reasons Storage Security is Failing and How to Fix It

Posted on May 7, 2018 by George Crump

An organization’s data is constantly under attack. Whether it’s through ransomware attacks, cyber-threats or employee misguidedness, all expose organizational data and put it at risk. Encryption and access control are the keys to securing data and cyber resiliency, but most…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Software Defined
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Understanding All-Flash Costs – X-IO Briefing Note

Posted on May 4, 2018 by George Crump

All-flash arrays are quickly becoming the production storage system of choice. Organizations like that all-flash arrays eliminate the need to constantly fine tune the environment to wring out that last little bit of performance. The problem is that flash arrays…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, dr, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, X-IO
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Enterprise Cloud Migration – 4 Problems to Solve

Posted on April 18, 2018 by George Crump

The biggest challenge any enterprise has to get over when migrating workloads to the cloud is SCALE! Large organizations have massive amounts of data; thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of terabytes of data. With this level of scale, migration…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
Posted in Slideshare

For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2018 by George Crump

A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…

Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar: Overcoming The 4 Data Protection Challenges of Hybrid IT

Posted on April 12, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations want to become data-driven. To achieve this goal they are leveraging modern applications and modern infrastructures. The combination creates a Hybrid IT environment where data and applications can be on-premises and in the cloud. While Hybrid IT does allow…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus
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Developing a Comprehensive Data Migration Strategy

Posted on April 10, 2018 by George Crump

Many organizations are working on a cloud data migration strategy. The problem is just working on a cloud migration strategy is too narrow and shortsighted. The cloud is not a single destination. There are multiple cloud providers and it is…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, Virtual, VM
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Utility vs. Solution – What’s Best for Enterprise Cloud Migration?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by George Crump

When IT needs to get something done once, or just occasionally, software utilities are a quick and easy way to accomplish the task at hand. Sometimes though, IT needs something more, a solution that will become part of the data…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, HCI, Migration, Scale, Sureline, VM
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5 Key Trends that Could Challenge Your Data Protection Plan in 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of data protection is to protect the organization from outages. The scope of these outages can impact an application, a server, a storage system or an entire data center. IT faces the challenge of restoring the most recent…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dev/ops, Encryption, Hybrid, IoT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, ROBO, SLA
Posted in Article

How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note

Posted on March 20, 2018 by George Crump

Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…