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Dealing with the AI and Analytics Data Explosion – MapR Briefing Note

Posted on July 11, 2018 by George Crump

Accuracy and response time defines the success or failure of an AI or analytics project. The faster and more accurate the response the more trusted the system is. The more data provided to the project the more accurate it becomes.…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, MapR, NDFS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, S3
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Flash to Flash to Cloud – Solving the Data Protection Problem

Posted on June 25, 2018 by George Crump

The primary objective of a data protection strategy is to protect data frequently and consistently. The ever growing size of data, the diversity of systems that store that data and the high expectations of the creators and consumers of that…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Tegile
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Why Data Movement Breaks Data Management and How to Fix It

Posted on June 18, 2018 by George Crump

The primary goal of a data management strategy is to reduce storage costs. Achieving that goal requires that at some point data will have to move from primary storage to a less expensive secondary storage. The movement of data between…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Tegile
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Developing a Practical Cloud Strategy for Traditional Data Centers

Posted on June 14, 2018 by George Crump

Many organizations want to develop a cloud strategy, but most don’t know where to begin. As a result, the organization stumbles into the cloud, often starting with using the cloud as a secondary backup storage area, with the hope that…

Tagged with: Archive, Bursting, Cloud, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Virtualization, Zerto
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Any Cloud Strategy Requires Understanding On-Premises Workloads

Posted on June 13, 2018 by George Crump

Is a Cloud First Strategy Right for IT? The cloud is a resource that most data centers are trying to factor into their future IT planning. Early adopters have found though that not all their workloads work properly, or at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Virtual Instruments
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SlideShare: Three Reasons Why Object Storage is the Best Defense against Ransomware Attacks

Posted on May 18, 2018 by George Crump

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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Managing Data to Manage Ransomware

Posted on May 14, 2018 by George Crump

One of the reasons that data centers are so vulnerable to ransomware attacks is the amount of data that remains accessible on production storage. The reality is that most of this data does not need to be there. Investing in…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Unstructured data
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The Problem with One-Way Cloud Scaling – FittedCloud Briefing Note

Posted on May 3, 2018 by George Crump

In theory, organizations can grow and shrink their public cloud footprint on demand. But, the reality is that most don’t, they only scale one-way, up. The typical process is that IT provisions a set of resources for a given workload…

Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, FittedCloud, Machine Learning, Object Storage, Optimization, VM
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Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem – Elastifile Briefing Note

Posted on May 2, 2018 by George Crump

Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance…