Storage managers face the paradox of needing to store seemingly unlimited pools of data for business analytics and compliance, and at the same time enabling recovery of Tier One applications instantaneously and with zero data loss. Against this backdrop, a…
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem requires an understanding of how organizations intend to use it. First, most organizations continue to use on-premises storage to support their applications and users. Second, these organization’s data centers have multiple storage systems in…
Unstructured data continues to grow exponentially in volume, and it is playing a strategic role in fueling business intelligence and analytics. As discussed in a previous Storage Switzerland blog, object storage has emerged as a solution well able to address…
It has been long acknowledged in the storage industry that two-thirds or more of data that sits on primary storage arrays is inactive. Storage managers hesitate to archive more data, due to the concern that an urgent request for the…
The data center continues to evolve, and data protection has to keep pace. Organizations want to intelligently leverage cloud resources to augment their on-premises data protection capabilities, and they need to respond to increased scrutiny of protected copies from regulations…
Hybrid Cloud Storage is ideal for most organizations seeking to reduce the cost of their storage infrastructure and to leverage computing resources in the cloud. The problem in fully enabling a hybrid cloud storage strategy is the latency between on-premises…
Most organization’s use of public cloud storage resources is the hybrid use case. A hybrid cloud strategy enables organizations to leverage the location and resources that make the most sense for the given workload. A hybrid cloud strategy though requires…
In what may be one of the most devastating attacks in recent history, email provider VFEmail is working through the aftermath of a massive cyberattack and is indicating that 18 years’ worth of its user’s email data is lost forever.…
The introduction of the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage protocol brings with it a new storage performance tier. Whereas older Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standards were designed for slower-performing hard disk drive (HDDs) and…
Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…
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