Despite the headlines, most data centers have not converted to all-flash arrays just yet. While they may have a few workloads that can benefit from flash performance, most of their workloads are performing just fine on a traditional hard disk-based…
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ChalkTalk Video: How Do You End Migration Headaches?
Selecting a new storage system is a lot of work. After the difficult task of selecting the new storage system is complete then there is still one more BIG challenge; how to get old data to the new system? The…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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How to Stop Ransomware Before The Damage Is Done
NTP Software Defendex™ Product Analysis Ransomware is, for good reason, top of mind right now. Most strategies under discussion now are actually responses, not analysis and elimination. And, because ransomware is such a profitable “business,” new versions will continue to…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, Encryption, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI
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Is it Time to De-Tape Your Archive?
Enterprises want more value from their archived data assets but tape doesn’t really enable the real-time archive that organizations need. The challenges is that any enterprise in existence for 10 years or longer more than likely has terabytes, even petabytes,…
Webinar: Why Data Migration Hurts And How To Stop the Pain
Transitioning from Data Migration to Data Management Migrating data for one-time projects is too time consuming and too expensive, so most companies have come to accept the pain of slow response times or substandard data availability and/or protection. If your…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Metadata, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Primary Data, SLO, SMB
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ChalkTalk Video: WannaCry, Snowden, Wikileaks… Is Your Data Next?
When IT defenses are compromised, the organization faces one of two challenges. Either the data is encrypted by a ransomware attack or it is copied to the attacker’s servers. In the first case, assuming data protection is in place and…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, Encryption, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Ransomware, Redundancy, ROI
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What if Archive Storage Cost More Than Primary?
Even if archive storage was the same price as primary storage, you’d still want to archive. While most in IT look at archiving as a way to reduce the cost of primary storage there is a lot more to it…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, Copy Data, HA, Migration, NTP Software, Redundancy, ROI
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How Does Saturday Night Live Use Object Storage?
Saturday Night Live (SNL) veteran Matt Yonks spoke about the show’s archival challenges at a special event hosted by Cloudian at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). Matt has been with SNL for 19 years and is their Post Production…
Why Would You Put SQL Server in a Container? – WinDocks Briefing Note
There’s no question that containers are growing in popularity, and attendance at this year’s DockerCcon is evidence of that. But the bulk of applications that are moving into containers still tend to be stateless applications without the need for persistent…
Tagged with: Backup, Container, Containers, Docker, dr, Migration, SQL, WinDocks
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What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server
Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Encryption, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware
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