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How to Overcome the NAS Silo Problem

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Gone are the days of the single site enterprise that relied on files being manually emailed between employees for collaboration. We live today in the world of the multi-site, agile enterprise. Users across the globe must be able to simultaneously…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Reducing the Cost of Scaling Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on June 12, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions start innocently enough. The organization starts with two or three nodes and initially it handles all their compute, and storage needs quite well. As the environment scales because of the growth of the initial workloads or…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DAS, Data Protection, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Why Azure Stack HCI for Your Hybrid or Private Cloud

Posted on June 5, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) consolidates several data center components into a single architecture with the promise of simplifying management and enabling better scale to meet the demands of the organization. Of these components, two of the most important are the hypervisor…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Three Steps to Simplify Your Transition to the Hybrid Cloud

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The hybrid cloud, whereby data and workloads can exist, be migrated and orchestrated across on-premises private and off-premises clouds, is by and large the end goal of most IT organizations today. One size does not fit all when it comes…

Tagged with: Axellio, Azure, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, SLA, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Simplifying the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI

Posted on May 31, 2019 by George Crump

Many organizations need to continue to run virtualized applications on-premises but are also looking to replace and consolidate aging server infrastructure. At the same time, these organizations want to leverage cloud services for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery…

Tagged with: Axellio, Azure, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Virtualization
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Is Enterprise File Sync and Share the Same as Data Protection?

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) services enable files that are stored either in an on-premises storage array or a cloud service, to be shared among multiple users and accessed by remote endpoint devices or desktops. Enterprise-grade EFSS services designed…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
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Tired of Backup Storage Capacity Planning? Look to the Cloud

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As recently discussed by Stephen Aldous, Principal Product Manager for Carbonite, and George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, backup purchases are difficult to budget for and are often an afterthought. Additionally, backup infrastructure typically jumps from periods of underutilization, to…

Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, SLA
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SlideShare: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Endpoint Data Strategy?

Posted on May 24, 2019 by George Crump

As organizations and their employees become more distributed, a case can be made that endpoints (laptops, tablets and smartphones) are some of the most critical pieces of technology in the organization. The problem is most organizations haven’t revisited their endpoint…

Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO
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HYCU Integrates with Nutanix Mine

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Streamlined and More Flexible HCI for Backup In a world of infrastructure and application sprawl, consolidation is becoming a popular topic to reduce complexity and costs. We have seen steps forward in production environments, driven in no small part by…