The method that IT uses to protect applications is changing. Gone are the days of three or four mission critical applications. Today the backup team at most data centers needs to concern itself with protecting dozens if not hundreds of…
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Can Your Service Levels Keep Up With the Application Explosion?
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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What is Intent Based Data Management? – Hammerspace Briefing Note
Data management is moving to the top of many IT project whiteboards and the reason why is simple, organizations are drowning in unstructured data. There is too much data, too many files and organizations store it in too many locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hammerspace, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data
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Lightboard Video: Overcoming IO Bottlenecks in HPC
Parallel file systems are a critical aspect of most Super Computing environments. One of the challenges facing parallel file systems is making sure the file system itself does not become a bottleneck. If not architected correctly, IO can overwhelm the…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Parallel File, SC18, Unstructured data
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The Impact of Application Sprawl on Protection Service Levels
In our on demand webinar “Application Explosion – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Service Levels” we discuss how IT can successfully continue to set service levels in environments where the number of applications they need to support is growing every…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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The New Requirements of Mainstream HPC Storage – Panasas ActiveStor Briefing Note
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is going mainstream. Commercial organizations, with increasing frequency, are creating HPC architectures. These organizations have large amounts of unstructured data that they need rapid sequential access to for analysis. Also, many organizations require “Big Manufacturing” which is…
Tagged with: HPC, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Panasas, Scalability, Scale-Out, SMB
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Disaster Recovery with Cloud as Primary Storage
The first blog in this series discussed initially using a Cloud as Primary Storage solution for data protection and then in the second blog in the series, transitioning to using the Cloud as Primary Storage to store production data. In…
Why SDN Should be Part of Your Cloud Strategy
Organizations are incorporating public cloud resources into their deployment strategies. The organization may have a cloud-first initiative, or it may use the cloud as determined by the workload but the reality is that an overwhelming number of organizations deploy in…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Designing Backups for Data Privacy and Ransomware
Two external factors are forcing organizations to rethink their backup process and how they store backup data. The first is the ever-increasing threat of ransomware, which encrypts production data forcing the customer to pay for a “key” to decrypt it.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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How to Create a Secure End-to-End Storage Infrastructure
Security breaches are a constant threat to organizations, and while securing primary storage is a top priority another challenge is making sure data is secure as various processes copy it. Organizations copy data for many legitimate reasons; backup, test-dev, and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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Modernizing NAS Instead of Replacing It – Qumulo Briefing Note
Organizations are almost universally struggling with storing and managing their unstructured data. From a storage system perspective, vendors offer legacy NAS systems, object storage systems and cloud storage services, all trying to convince IT professionals that they are the best…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, Qumulo, SAS, Unstructured data
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