Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a great way for an organization to start its cloud journey, and the first part of that journey starts with a backup. Data has to get to the cloud before it can be…
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How Can DRaaS Backup Performance Be Different?
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VM
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A File System in the Cloud vs. A Cloud File System
There are two types of cloud based file systems. One is designed to extend cloud storage into the organization. The other is designed to allow organizations to run applications in the cloud but use more traditional file protocols like NFS…
NetApp Holds Annual Conference Amidst Mandalay Bay Shooting
If NetApp handles its business as well as it handled Insight 2017 – held in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas – NetApp will do just fine. The conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, went…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, GreenQloud, HCI, Hypervisor, Migration, NAS, NetApp, NetApp Insight, Replication, SolidFire, Spinnaker
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How to Move YOUR Cloud To THE Cloud?
Many IT professionals consider their VMware infrastructure to be a private cloud. While not true self-provisioning, it provisions compute and storage resources much faster than in the past. Public cloud providers like Amazon and Azure have almost unlimited quantities of…
Can You Share Files Without File Sync and Share?
Enterprise IT departments have struggled with file sharing for some time. The traditional solutions were deemed by many users to be passé and not in keeping with modern workflows. This caused many users to resort to consumer-grade solutions, leading to…
The Cost Savings of Using The Cloud as Primary VMware Storage
The cloud is a vast resource of compute and storage, all available on-demand as the organization needs it. Using cloud storage as VMware primary storage with compute remaining on-premises opens up many possibilities. In our last column we discussed how…
How to Use The Cloud as VMware Primary Storage
Cloud storage offers data centers almost limitless capacity and they can purchase that capacity as they need it. But to this point, most use cases for the cloud have been as a secondary storage target, a place to store archives…
Does File Sync and Share Create A Data Deduplication Problem?
File sync and share is here to stay, and enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) is how most enterprises add this functionality to their environment. The question is whether the addition of this new service adds additional problems. For example,…
Hyperconvergence – Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out
One of the attractions of a hyperconverged architecture is when the organization needs more compute or storage resources, it simply adds another node. But hyperconverged vendors seldom talk about the downsides to this approach. There may be times when it…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, NVMe, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: How To Leverage Cloud Storage for Hybrid VMware
The VMware environment, for most data centers, is the beginning of their cloud journey. But they struggle with the next step, moving applications or storage to the cloud. Sure, there are applications to migrate or replicate virtual machines to the…
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