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…
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How to Prevent a Cloud Migration Boomerang
Tagged with: Avere, CAP, Capacity, Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale
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Did HCI Create a Storage Problem to Solve a Storage Problem?
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) seems like a dream come true for IT professionals trying to deal with rapid data growth. HCI is built from a cluster of nodes, with each node providing compute, storage performance and storage capacity. When the organization…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cluster, HCI, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Why Backup is Breaking Hyper-Converged Infrastructures and How to Fix it
The goal of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is to simplify how to apply compute, network and storage resources to applications. Ideally, the data center’s IT needs are consolidated down to a single architecture that automatically scales as the organization needs…
Tagged with: Backup, Comtrade, dr, HCI, Hyper-convergence, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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NAS vs. The Unstructured Data Vault
There are two primary use cases for NAS. The first demands high performance when using NAS as primary storage to host application data and virtual machines. Modern NAS systems address this use case. The second, and more common, use is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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Can Primary Storage Help Meet the GDPR Challenge?
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is forcing IT organizations worldwide to pay careful attention to their backup and recovery processes. The problem is most of these processes are already fragile and adding more responsibility may cause…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Tegile, Virtualization
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A 3 Step Cloud Storage Strategy
The desired final step of a cloud strategy is to use the services available in the cloud to the fullest extent possible. The problem is for most organizations the first step, leveraging the cloud for backup or archive, which typically…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, SwiftStack, Sync
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What’s Next in Enterprise Backup Appliances? INFINIDAT Backup Appliance Briefing Note
Backup Appliances come in two forms. Integrated appliances that have the backup software pre-installed on them and appliances that act as stand-alone systems so they can accept input from a variety of backup sources. The second type is probably more…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Encryption, Infinidat, NFS, Recovery, Replication, SMB
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Webinar: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
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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Why Do Primary Storage Providers Resist the Public Cloud?
Public cloud storage is highly scalable and very cost effective. It also happens to be located next to an almost infinite supply of compute. Why then do most primary storage vendors pretend the resource doesn’t exist? The answer is quite…
Predicting WAN Performance – Disaster Recovery’s Missing Link – Apposite Briefing Note
Most storage systems today have the ability to replicate data to another storage system at another site. If the storage system doesn’t have that capability, then there are plenty of third-party software solutions that perform the function. Even if the…
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