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It is Time to Get Serious About Your Cloud Strategy – Zerto Briefing Note

Posted on February 13, 2018 by George Crump

Most organizations, if they are using cloud resources at all, are only using the cloud for a single purpose. The two most common use cases are backup storage and archive storage. Most organizations also look at the cloud as a…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, CSP, dr, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, RPO, RTO, Zerto
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Creating Enterprise Ready Global File Collaboration – Nasuni Briefing Note

Posted on February 9, 2018 by George Crump

There are several global file collaboration vendors on the market today. These solutions are designed to replace legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems. As the global file collaboration moniker implies, these systems allow the widespread distribution of files. The solutions…

Tagged with: Cloud, Global File, Hybrid, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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An Alternative Approach to HCI

Posted on February 8, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructures claim to be a simpler alternative to a traditional architecture with a dedicated compute and a dedicated storage tier. The primary source of the simplification is the elimination of a dedicated storage tier. Instead, HCI integrates storage into…

Tagged with: Block Based, Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Replication, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Realizing the Full Potential of NVMe – E8 Storage Briefing Note

Posted on February 7, 2018 by George Crump

When flash storage first came to market it exposed the weakness in storage designs, hidden by the latency of hard disk media. Now, NVMe promises to expose weaknesses in the designs of the first generation of all-flash arrays. One of…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, E8, FC, Flash, HPC, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SSD
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2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide

Posted on February 6, 2018 by George Crump

Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…

Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage

Posted on February 5, 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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“Just Adding Another Node” – The Hidden HCI Scale Complexity

Posted on February 1, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is supposed to make scaling easier. When the architecture needs to deliver more compute power, storage performance or storage capacity, just add another node. The problem is “just adding another node”, especially as the number of nodes…

Tagged with: Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals – Three Capabilities to Look For

Posted on January 30, 2018 by George Crump

This was the sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent. In this webinar listen to Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: The different tiers of the Amazon storage offering How to create…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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Can HCI Guarantee Application Performance?

Posted on January 26, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) promise simplicity; simpler management and simpler scaling. One of the challenges though is that as an organization scales it also starts to expect specific response times from specific applications. Priorities set in, and IT must assure the…

Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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How to Prevent a Cloud Migration Boomerang

Posted on January 24, 2018 by George Crump

Recent studies indicate that as many as 50% of cloud migrations need to move back into the data center. While there are many reasons for this boomerang effect, lack of data consistency is one of the most common. The CAP…