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15 Minute Webinar: Do You Really Need to Consolidate Backup?

Posted on October 1, 2019 by George Crump

IT Professionals have been on a life-long mission to find a backup solution that can do everything. The goal is to back up the entire data center to a single backup target, all controlled by a single application. Is it…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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VMware Storage Needs Intelligence and Awareness for a Different Experience

Posted on September 26, 2019 by George Crump

VMware continues to be at the heart of many data center infrastructures and will continue to be that heart for years, if not decades to come. Many of these infrastructures are still struggling however with the most basic of data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Key Management – The Dirty Secret of HCI Encryption

Posted on September 18, 2019 by George Crump

Edge data centers can be remote retail locations or offices, oil rigs, temporary command centers and even mobile data centers in the back of a van. Finding a solution that provides the performance edge data centers need at a price…

Tagged with: Cloud, Dell PowerEdge, Encryption, HCI, Hypervisor, IoT, Migration, SAN, Scale, Software Defined, StorMagic, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Fulfilling The SDS Promise

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Central to the promise of software-defined storage (SDS) is the core tenet that organizations have a single interface to manage all of their diverse storage resources. Unlike most SDS solutions, which fail to fulfill this core principle, DataCore Software is…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Lightboard Video: How to Move to HCI while retaining the best of SANs

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs-simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch.…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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In Search of True DRaaS – Datrium Delivers the DRaaS We Expected

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) burst on the scene about four years ago. However, most DRaaS solutions don’t exactly live up to expectations. Frequently built on backup, these are solutions that try to make recovery act like high availability.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Datrium, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, HCI, Hyperconverged, Replication, Retention, VM
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Why VMware Storage is STILL a Problem

Posted on August 29, 2019 by George Crump

Most VMware storage solutions attempt to fix storage pain points with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. While the sledgehammer approach does solve or at least mask some VMware storage problems, many still remain. More importantly, the life of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Meet The CEO: HYCU, Inc’s Simon Taylor

Posted on August 15, 2019 by George Crump

Backup and Recovery is as old as the data center itself, but organizations still struggle with the process. IT professionals have tried many solutions to solve their data protection solutions, and the market is full of options, but none seem…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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Unlocking Software Defined Storage

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

Software-defined storage (SDS) is a concept that sometimes benefits vendors more so than it benefits customers. Most SDS vendors are shifting from a model that was software only to one that includes hardware. SDS is still advantageous to these vendors…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
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Scale Computing Addresses the Edge, Unveils VDI-in-a-Box

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Autonomous HCI that Removes the Need for Infrastructure Expertise IT teams are pressured to oversee a larger amount of data center infrastructure. Enterprises are becoming more distributed and they are embracing a growing number of edge locations that oftentimes do…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Disaster recovery, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Replication, Scale Computing, VDI
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