Most organizations use the cloud in a hybrid manner. Some applications and workloads remain on-premises, while some are transitory between on-premises and the cloud, and still others are cloud only. The distributed IT model puts a new strain on the…
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Commercial HPC vs. Enterprise Storage
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is no longer a workload for academia, now organizations of all types and sizes have HPC like workloads that require scalable, sequential access to vast amounts of unstructured data. These initiatives need rapid access and need to…
How to Design Storage for Commercial HPC
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and commercial data centers used to be two distinctly separate entities, but now businesses of all types are conducting HPC-like operations. These organizations have large amounts of unstructured data that they need rapid sequential access to for…
Webinar: Three Reasons Why NAS is No Good for AI and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are becoming mainstream initiatives at many organizations. Data is at the heart of AI and ML. Immediate access to large data sets is pivotal to successful ML outcomes. Without data, there is no…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, HPC, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, WekaIO
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ChalkTalk Video: How to Scale Up and Scale Out Backup
Organizations are asked to store unprecedented amounts of data. Protection of this data to a secondary storage device and replicating it off-site is critical. For most organizations, the capacity requirements of secondary data, data used for backups and other purposes,…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, NAS, Replication, Scale, Snapshot
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Webinar: Is Your Storage Ready for Commercial HPC? – Three Steps to Take
High-Performance Computing (HPC) used to be limited to universities and government agencies, now though industries of all types are leveraging HPC for big manufacturing, in-depth analysis, sophisticated modeling and VFX rendering. However, commercial organizations don’t have the time for erector…
Cloud NAS vs. Large Files – How Cloud NAS can Win
Many Cloud NAS solutions leverage a local cache to get around the latency problem when retrieving data from the cloud. If the requested file is on the local cache the user will notice no performance difference than before they had…
ChalkTalk Video: HCI is Not Backup
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendors have gotten into a bad habit of claiming that once an organization implements the HCI solution, they no longer have to worry about backup. While there are components of HCI, (snapshots and replication), that do help…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Endpoint, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Metadata, NAS, Replication, Snapshot
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SlideShare: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks
Backups, by themselves, are not an effective defense against a ransomware attack. The systems that store backup data also require protection, but backup storage is as vulnerable to a ransomware attack as production data, if not more so. If both…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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Posted in Slideshare
Why Endpoints Break Backup
According to several recent studies, about 30% to 40% of an organization’s data is stored uniquely on endpoints (laptops and devices). This unique data is not stored or backed up anywhere in the data center, and is outside of the…
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