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Lightboard Video: 5 Essential Storage Needs for Global 1000 Cloud Deployments

Posted on January 29, 2020 by George Crump

As the large enterprises look to the cloud to deliver agility and remove complexity and cost, data requirements and storage infrastructure often stands right in the way of achieving organizational goals. To get storage out of the way so IT…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HCI, HDD, Hyperconverged, ML, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined
Posted in Video

Lightboard Video: Data Protection and Mobility for HCI and the Public Cloud

Posted on January 24, 2020 by George Crump

Organizations are evolving their data centers to be more cloud-like. A significant component of these initiatives is to invest in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Organizations are implementing HCI at multiple locations and, at the same time, are moving some workloads to…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, HYCU, Hyperconverged, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
Posted in Video

Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

Overcoming the DRaaS Time Compromise

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) looks great on paper. DRaaS vendors tell organizations that they can eliminate their disaster recovery site and recover on-demand, in the cloud. The potential for cost savings abounds. Organizations have the potential to reduce…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Flash, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, NFS, NVMe, SDDC
Posted in Briefing Note

Purpose-Built versus Consolidated Backup

Posted on December 3, 2019 by George Crump

The number of data protection applications designed to back up a specific application or environment is increasing dramatically. These purpose-built backup applications have an almost unfair advantage over legacy solutions and customers seem more than willing to deal with the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Purpose Built, SQL
Posted in Blog

New White Paper: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Protection

Posted on November 25, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in White Paper

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management

Posted on November 22, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn’t have a cloud-native application, they may want…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
Posted in Webinar

A Better Convergence for Converged Data Protection?

Posted on October 17, 2019 by George Crump

Converged data protection solutions attempt to manage all backup software and protection storage management operations from a single interface. These solutions also tend to be scale-out, addressing another big backup pain point, scaling and managing the backup repository. The challenge…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Converged, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Migration, Nutanix, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note

Overcoming HCI Transition Problems

Posted on October 8, 2019 by George Crump

As they consider a potential transition to a hyperconverged architecture (HCI), organizations need to decide how to migrate data to the HCI platform. They also need to decide what to do with their legacy storage infrastructure that still will be…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Blog

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…