The number of applications in organization’s data centers is growing rapidly. No longer does IT need to worry about a few mission and business critical applications, it needs to worry about dozens. While all these applications are important to the…
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Webinar: Application Explosion – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Protection Service Levels
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, Micro Focus, Ransomware, RPO, RTO
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How to Go All-In with the Cloud as Primary Storage
In our on demand webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage“, we discuss how IT can use the cloud as primary storage to improve their data protection process while dramatically reducing their investments in secondary storage. Since…
Modern Data Protection Architectures Enable a Step-by-Step Cloud Journey
The cloud holds much promise for data protection, but support for the cloud varies depending on the solution. Traditional backup applications and appliances have, at best, rudimentary support for the cloud. They may only mirror the on-premises copy of data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Rubrik, Virtualization, VM
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Making Storage for AI and DL Turnkey – DDN – NVIDIA Briefing Note
When an organization moves Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) projects from the test and design phase to production, the responsibility for maintaining that project often lands in IT’s lap. IT then has to put together an architecture that…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, NVIDIA, NVMe, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage
The cloud should be a valuable ally in helping organizations eliminate backup infrastructure and increase their disaster recovery (DR) confidence. The reality is that current cloud backup and DR solutions fall short because they don’t fully exploit cloud resources. Most…
SlideShare: Why Cloud Migrations Fail – Learn the Keys to Cloud Success
Many cloud migration and cloud first strategies fail to live up to expectations. The problem is organizations spend too much time on micro issues like product selection and not enough time on big picture items like the cloud strategy’s foundation.…
Public Clouds Provide Storage Tiers – Why Doesn’t Storage Software Support it?
Public cloud providers all have at least three tiers of storage to offer their customers. They often offer a high-performance tier for cloud native applications, a tier designed for active but not as performance sensitive, unstructured data sets and a…
Bringing Tier 0 in From the Lunatic Fringe – Violin Systems Briefing Note
In most data centers, Tier 1 production storage has evolved from high-end hard disk-based systems to hybrid systems supported by flash to all-flash arrays. These Tier 1 systems are also typically well equipped with enterprise features like snapshots, replication and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Snapshot, Violin Systems
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Understanding the ROI of Cloud as Primary Storage
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
Storage Consolidation Requires Cloud Archive
Managing one of something is usually easier than managing five of something. Indeed, when it comes to storage systems, it is easy to manage one vast storage array than it is five to ten individual ones. Consolidated systems focus much…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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