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Creating a Cloud Extension Instead of a Cloud Migration Strategy – Nexenta Briefing Note

Posted on March 26, 2018 by George Crump

As data centers consider the role cloud compute and storage will have in their organization’s IT strategy, they look for solutions to extend what they already have, not solutions that require them to start over in the cloud. One of…

Tagged with: Block, Cloud, ISCSI, Migration, NAS, Nexenta, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SDS, SMB, Unstructured data
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Protecting The Data-Driven Organization – Imanis Data Briefing Note

Posted on March 23, 2018 by George Crump

Most organizations make decisions based on data. In recent years, the amount of data that these organizations can access to help make those decisions has exploded. More data, though, won’t help unless the organization can analyze that data. It became…

Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, DAS, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Hadoop, Imanis Data, Migration, NAS, NoSQL, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, SAN
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End-User Acceptance, Priority 1 for Enterprise Endpoint Backup

Posted on March 19, 2018 by George Crump

There are a lot of excellent reasons to deploy an enterprise-wide data protection strategy and at the top of the list is protecting users from Ransomware. One of the critical challenges, though, to successfully deploying an enterprise-wide endpoint backup strategy,…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LTE, Malware, Ransomware, Replication, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on March 13, 2018 by George Crump

Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Software-Only HA and DR for Linux – LINBIT Briefing Note

Posted on March 12, 2018 by George Crump

Linux is the dominant operating system of most cloud providers, and many enterprises have mission-critical applications that run on Linux. The applications running in these environments can be on bare metal systems, or virtual machines as well as containers. All…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, dr, HA, LINBIT, Linux, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, VM
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SlideShare: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge

Posted on March 9, 2018 by George Crump

The ideal first step for enterprise adoption of object storage is the replacement of NAS and file servers. Object storage is suitable for unstructured data storage; it supports almost limitless capacity and file counts, it can better protect and maintain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data
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Are Hybrid Arrays the New Secondary Storage

Posted on March 8, 2018 by George Crump

Before all-flash hybrid arrays existed, systems made up of flash, and high performance hard disk drives were the go-to option for organizations looking to solve performance problems. However, hybrid systems’ dominance was short lived as all-flash arrays came to market…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Replication, Tegile, Virtualization
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What is Next in Backup and Recovery? – NAKIVO Briefing Note

Posted on March 6, 2018 by George Crump

Data protection has changed. Most data centers are heavily virtualized, and are using more than just VMware as their hypervisor. Organizations are also well down the path of moving workloads to the cloud, most notably into Amazon EC2. Expectations of…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Flash, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Primary Storage Should Secure Itself – RackTop Systems Briefing Note

Posted on March 5, 2018 by George Crump

News of another data breach is becoming all too common of an occurrence. The cost to the organization is not just its reputation but increasingly results in punitive fines. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set a new…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber, Encryption, GDPR, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, S3, SMB, Snapshot
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Multi-Cloud is a Reality – How to Deal With it – NooBaa Briefing Note

Posted on March 2, 2018 by George Crump

Multi-Cloud, the idea of using a variety of cloud service providers based on their capabilities or who has the best price sounds great. While it sounds great that organizations will have the foresight to systematically review and move workloads in…