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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors

Posted on March 21, 2019 by George Crump

It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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Why Controllerless Software-defined Networking for the Distributed Cloud?

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises will continue to shift away from centralized data centers, in lieu of smaller edge locations that provide the latency, bandwidth, autonomy and privacy required by future forward workloads such as virtual reality (VR) and Internet of Things (IoT) driven…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyper-converged, IoT, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, SLA, Software Defined, Virtual reality
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Lightboard Video: What is the Next Generation of NAS?

Posted on March 18, 2019 by George Crump

Unstructured data continues to grow unabated and traditional network attached storage (NAS) systems simply can’t keep pace. These systems are often cloud ignorant, can’t deal with the growing population of small file workloads and provide almost no insight into the…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Disaster recovery, IoT, ML, NAS, Qumulo, Unstructured data
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What is Computational Storage?

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Modern workloads such as analytics of data generated at the edge require vast amounts of data to be processed in parallel. As discussed in our previous blog, the advent of solid-state drive (SSD) storage media has caused the interface between…

Tagged with: Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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How to Use Copy Data Locally, Regionally and Globally

Posted on March 15, 2019 by George Crump

Copy Data is secondary copies of data that already exists on primary storage. These copies are used for recovery, reporting, analytics and testing. Most copy data management solutions are really just advanced snapshot management tools. They don’t provide a robust…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtualization
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Three Things Missing From Your Enterprise Cloud Backup Solution

Posted on March 14, 2019 by George Crump

Many organizations are considering switching to a cloud backup solution to meet their data protection needs. Cloud backup promises to reduce the data protection headache by reducing the investment in on-premises infrastructure. And while cloud backup does provide almost automatic…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, IoT, Recovery, SLA
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Webinar: How to Create an Infrastructure-less Backup Strategy

Posted on March 13, 2019 by George Crump

Designing architectures to backup primary storage as well as provide rapid recoveries is a challenging task that most IT professionals need to face. It is even more challenging in the face of a rapidly growing data set, increasing demand for…

Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware
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Lightboard Video: Why The Edge is Demanding Next Generation Network Fabrics

Posted on March 12, 2019 by George Crump

Edge Computing, often referred to as Distributed Cloud, is becoming a requirement for a set of new application use cases revolving around IoT, AI/ML and other new technologies requiring ultra low latency, data thinning to reduce bandwidth costs, autonomy, and…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined
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Getting More Out of Your Storage with Copy Data Management

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Copy data sprawl is quickly getting out of hand. Enterprises are spinning up multiple copies of data to meet growing needs around processes such as retention, test and development, analytics and legal discovery without impacting the production storage system. These…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Using the Cloud to Improve Compliance

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The modern era of stricter compliance regulations and more privacy savvy consumers changes the backup and disaster recovery paradigms. It necessitates that enterprises obtain a complete, centralized and searchable data repository – as well as more sophisticated risk monitoring, management…