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Solving DR’s Two Biggest Failures – Documentation and Testing with Orchestration

Posted on September 24, 2019 by George Crump

During a disaster, there is a lot that can go wrong, and IT needs to expect the unexpected. In most cases though, it is not the unexpected that causes a disaster recovery (DR) effort to fail. The primary reasons that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
Posted in Blog

Solving the Media and Advertising Firm Storage Challenge

Posted on September 23, 2019 by George Crump

Many media and advertising firms require multi-site collaboration and external file sharing. Like most industries, these firms are also facing unprecedented data growth both within their core data center and at the edge. They, like the larger media and entertainment…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, CTERA, Data Retention, dr, Edge Filer, HDD, NAS, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, SMB, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note

Automating Hybrid Cloud

Posted on September 23, 2019 by George Crump

Creating a hybrid cloud is much harder than organizations expect. Cloud infrastructures run different hypervisors than on-premises, which means it’s necessary to transform the workloads before they can run in the cloud, and then transform them back if the organization…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cohesity, Container, Dev/Test, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 13, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

Creating an Accessible Archive for Media and Entertainment

Posted on September 12, 2019 by George Crump

The traditional Media and Entertainment (M&E) market is exploding with new producers of content for movies and television. It is also seeing significant growth in sports television, corporate training and worship broadcasting. All of these content creators benefit from a…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, HPC, M&E, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scale-Out
Posted in Briefing Note

How DR Orchestration Can Improve Success while Lowering Costs

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

To the organization, all applications are essential, but not all apps are critical. There is a pecking order in terms of what applications need to be back online first. Recovery prioritization is especially crucial during a full-scale disaster where the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
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Lightboard Video: Fulfilling The SDS Promise

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Central to the promise of software-defined storage (SDS) is the core tenet that organizations have a single interface to manage all of their diverse storage resources. Unlike most SDS solutions, which fail to fulfill this core principle, DataCore Software is…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Video

Lightboard Video: How to Move to HCI while retaining the best of SANs

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs-simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch.…

Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Video

In Search of True DRaaS – Datrium Delivers the DRaaS We Expected

Posted on September 5, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) burst on the scene about four years ago. However, most DRaaS solutions don’t exactly live up to expectations. Frequently built on backup, these are solutions that try to make recovery act like high availability.…