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No Room in the Data Center – Secondary Storage Needs Cloud Integration – Cohesity Briefing Note

Posted on December 14, 2017 by George Crump

Most data growth in the enterprise is happening because of secondary storage use cases like backup, archive, and data re-use for test/dev or analytics (also known as copy data). In most cases, the capacity of secondary data is 10 to…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication
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What is Cloud Adjacent Storage? – INFINIDAT Briefing Note

Posted on December 14, 2017 by George Crump

Cloud adjacent storage is storage positioned within close proximity to a data center owned by a cloud provider. It enables compute the cloud provider hosts to have high performance, low latent access to data across traditional storage protocols. The challenge…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Cloud Adjacent, DRaaS, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, ISCSI, NFS, RAM, Replication, Software Defined
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Protecting MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop – Datos IO Briefing Note

Posted on December 13, 2017 by George Crump

Data center modernization usually includes the organization moving to modern cloud applications like MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. Like most new initiatives a forgotten element is data protection. These environments are particularly challenging to protect because they are designed to run…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Corruption, Datos IO, Deduplication, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Using Software Composable Infrastructure for RackScale Application – DriveScale Briefing Note

Posted on December 13, 2017 by George Crump

Rackscale applications like Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra and others count on using commodity storage that is typically internally available to the node processing the data. The idea is to reduce storage costs and network complexity. The problem is these designs create…

Tagged with: DAS, DriveScale, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, SAN, SAS
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What’s The Best Way To Rapidly Recover Data?

Posted on December 13, 2017 by George Crump

There are more methods to recover data than ever. It used to be that recovery meant loading a tape drive, scanning the whole tape to find the job that had the needed data, extracting that data from the job and…

Tagged with: dr, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots
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What’s the Role of Object Storage in Backup?

Posted on December 8, 2017 by George Crump

Object storage systems are typically software-based solutions that run on commodity servers, which are clustered to create a single pool of storage. As a result, object storage solutions tend to be very cost-effective from a-price-per-GB perspective. These systems also have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloudian, Data Sprawl, FMS2016, MS-SQL, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, VMware
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Ready for an All-Flash Comeback – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on December 7, 2017 by George Crump

Violin Systems was one of the first storage vendors to bring an all-flash storage system to market. While the company had early success in the market, a combination of fierce competition and poor management decisions lead to the company filing…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, IOPS, Latency, NVMf, Replication, Scale, Snapshots, SSD, Violin Memory
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Making the NAS to Object Storage Conversion Work – Cloudian HyperFile Briefing Note

Posted on December 6, 2017 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) and file servers have long outlived their usefulness. They’re expensive and don’t scale easily, making them a poor fit for many use cases. Nonetheless, they’ve enjoyed a virtual monopoly in unstructured data storage. When 100TB was…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Cloud Backup? Yes, No or Sometimes

Posted on November 29, 2017 by George Crump

Cloud backup has several advantages over traditional on-site backup and one big negative; the data is no longer stored within the familiar confines of the data center. Even if the cloud backup solution provides robust encryption, many organizations have some…

Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: How To Develop a Cloud Storage Strategy That Works

Posted on November 29, 2017 by George Crump

As IT professionals begin to implement a cloud storage strategy they immediately face two challenges; the first is the actual transition itself. How to learn the new architectures available to them and how to deal with application incompatibilities as they…