Organizations need to break down the walls between storage systems and data center locations. Seamless data movement eliminates the need for data migration, optimizes storage resources and even eliminates cloud lock-in. But how does the organization facilitate this movement without…
The software defined data center does not mean data centers are free from vendor lock-in. It just means vendors moved the lock from hardware to software. While the software may (not always) provide the organization the ability to mix and…
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…
The first step in the storage refresh process has nothing to do with vendors or storage systems. The first step should be to decide on the technology best suited to the workloads the storage system will host. Organizations need to…
A ransomware attack puts IT in a battle against the malware author. To the victor goes the data. Every organization needs a prevention strategy. It also must realize that at some point the virus will get through, and at that…
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…
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,…
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…
If your organization is embarking on a refresh of your primary storage system this year, this is the one webinar that you will want to attend. IT evaluators that haven’t looked at storage in a few years will be impressed…
The cloud is an ideal storage area for the 90 percent of an organization’s data that is not active. Moving this data to the cloud frees up on-premises storage requirements as well as data center floor space. The problem is…
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