As data centers look to the cloud they are faced with the very real challenges of dealing with sprawl, managing growth and ever increasing complexity. Growth though is not bad, it means the business is growing. Growth, however, needs to…
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ChalkTalk Video: The Keys to Hybrid IT Success
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, VM, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: Hybrid NVMe Flash
How do you make an all-flash array faster? Add NVMe SSDs. The problem today is NVMe SSDs have a higher price point than SAS based SSDs. Why not use hybrid array technology to deliver great performance at a price the…
ChalkTalk Video: What Keeps IT Up at Night?
While the industry talks about clouds (public, hybrid and private), what keeps IT up at night is dealing with storage refreshes, defeating ransomware, maintaining application availability and controlling costs. These problems have been with IT years, but they are worse…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Fabric, Hybrid, ioFABRIC, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SDS, VMworld2017
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How to Leverage AWS or Azure Object Storage For Cloud Hosted Applications
Many organizations are looking to move their applications to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Part of the challenge is how to integrate the organization’s applications with native cloud storage protocols. Instead of re-writing existing applications from…
Does All-Flash Really Eliminate VMware Performance Tuning?
VMware, as it became the standard in the data center, created a huge storage problem, often called the IO blender. Fortunately, as the IO blender problem was about to reach its peak, hybrid and all-flash arrays came to market reducing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, Latency, NAND, SAN, Virtual Instruments, VMware
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Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?
An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Unstructured Business Continuity
When IT planners think of business continuity they often think of databases and applications the organization needs to sustain operations. But what about unstructured data? Does unstructured data need the same level of business continuity that structured data does? How…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status Quo
Between 2010 and 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data created by humans and enterprises will increase 50x. Legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems can’t meet the unstructured data demands of the mobile workforce or distributed organizations. In this…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Panzura, ROI, Unstructured data
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How To Leverage Cloud Storage With VMware
VWware, for the most part, is an on-premises infrastructure and that typically means there is an on-premises storage architecture to support it. How, then, can organizations leverage cloud storage in support of their VMware infrastructure? Cloud Storage for VMware Backup…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Retention, Hybrid, Migration, Replication, VM, VMware
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What is Hybrid Flash 2.0?
Originally, hybrid flash arrays solved a price problem. Hybrid Flash 2.0 solves a performance problem. In their first iteration, these systems were designed to bridge the gap between expensive flash storage and more affordable hard disk drive storage. But as…
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