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…
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Big Data for Small Enterprises
Big Data is not just for big enterprises. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) can reap the same rewards. But SMEs can’t build a Big Data infrastructure like larger enterprises. The good news it they don’t have to, they can leverage…
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 Data Management Protects Against Cyber-Attacks
The reason that file data is a prime target of ransomware attacks is that most file servers are full of juicy targets that organizations are willing to pay to get back. Payment is, after all, exactly what ransomware is all…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Malware, NAS, NTP, NTP Software, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication
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How Do Disk Backup Appliances Scale?
Eventually most organizations will run out of backup storage, so understanding how backup storage scales is critical to creating a long term data protection strategy. It is not as simple as just converting to a scale-out architecture because deduplication adds…
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,…
Does Disk Based Backup Require Deduplication Anymore?
Hardware-based deduplication legitimized the concept of backing up to disk. But deduplication alone is no longer as important as it used to be. The problem with hardware-based duplication is the data must be transferred to the backup appliance prior to…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Compression, Deduplication, Disk, Flash, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, Tape
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StorageShort: Curing The Windows Ransomware Problem
Windows file servers are a prime target for ransomware attacks. They are chock full of files, just waiting to be encrypted. They are also one the last set of servers to have patches applied. In this StorageShort Video we discuss…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Caringo, Cloud, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Windows
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What Storage Product Should You Use in the Cisco UCS Storage Server?
Customers of Cisco’s UCS 3260 Storage Server can run any software defined storage product that is available as a software-only product. The question is how does one pick amongst the many that are available? Understanding the performance and functionality needs…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, HCI, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, SAN, SDS, SwiftStack
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Webinar: 5 Steps To The Perfect Storage Refresh
An Independent Process for Assessing & Refreshing Storage Every data center eventually needs to increase capacity, resiliency, performance or the cost efficiency of its storage architecture. It needs to refresh storage infrastructure. The problem is that most organizations don’t have…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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