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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
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SlideShare: The Hybrid Cloud Data Gravity Problem and How to Fix It

Posted on February 15, 2019 by George Crump

Most organization’s use of public cloud storage resources is the hybrid use case. A hybrid cloud strategy enables organizations to leverage the location and resources that make the most sense for the given workload. A hybrid cloud strategy though requires…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, File Virtualization, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage
Posted in Slideshare

Programmable Storage Without The Programming

Posted on July 11, 2017 by George Crump

As data centers scale, the ability to automate routine tasks enables this growth to occur without requiring additional staff. The problem is most automation requires learning a programming or scripting language which most IT professionals don’t have the time to…

Tagged with: File Virtualization, Migration, MSP, Nexenta, SDS, Snapshot, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Making the Always-On Data Center a Reality

Posted on July 2, 2015 by George Crump

Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, File Virtualization, Veeam
Posted in Slideshare

Beat a 4 Hour RPO-RTO Without Breaking the Bank

Posted on June 10, 2015 by George Crump

The Recovery Gap Storage Switzerland’s latest webinar, now available on demand, discussed ways that IT professionals could create the “Always-on Data Center”. In that webinar we asked a polling question that had surprising results. Over 89% of the attendees could…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, File Virtualization, Recovery in Place, RPO, Veeam, VM
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