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Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Understanding Software-Defined File Systems
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a frequently used term that can have different definitions depending on the vendor using the term. SDS solutions can be block, file, or object-based. File systems are almost always software-defined and nearly always run on top…
New eBook: The Value of DR Orchestration
Given the pace of the modern data center, creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan is a significant challenge. Keeping that plan up to date after it’s created is almost impossible because of how quickly the data center changes. If a…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Learn How To Solve Your DR Nightmare in Less Than 30 Minutes!
What is your disaster recovery (DR) plan? Most organizations today do not have a formalized process. When disaster strikes, IT scrambles, hoping to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat. A DR plan prioritizes recovery efforts so that personnel can…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, Veeam, VM
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Is Your Storage Ready for the Data-Driven Economy? – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Organizations need to re-think their storage architectures for the data-driven economy. How an organization captures, stores, and analyzes data, can dictate how successful it might be in this new economic model where data drives organizations. The data-driven economy is not…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, AS, Cloud, Container, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Hard disk drive, Retention, Scale, SwiftStack, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Product Spotlight: Veeam Availability Orchestrator Version 2
Organizations can no longer count on a “best efforts” disaster recovery strategy. They also can’t afford to take a “recover everything instantly” strategy. IT must balance the recovery requirements of the organization with the realities of the budget to make…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Object Store, Replication, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, VM
Posted in Product Spotlight
Posted in Product Spotlight
When is Object Storage NOT the Answer?
Object storage plays an essential role in today’s data center, but that does not mean that organizations need to give up on their network-attached storage (NAS) solutions. While the capacity demands of unstructured data are growing at alarming rates, the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Sharing, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Metadata, Migration, NAS, NFS, Qumulo, Retention, SMB, Unstructured data
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
Requirements for Unstructured Data at Petabyte Scale
Unstructured data is hard to manage. When an organization’s unstructured data assets cross the petabyte threshold, though, controlling the data set brings on an entirely new set of challenges. Most legacy network-attached storage (NAS) systems struggle to manage 100 terabyte…
Meet The CEO of ExaGrid
In a very crowded data backup market, ExaGrid has stood the test of time and is one of the premier backup storage solutions on the market. Unlike many of its competitors, ExaGrid’s appliances can work with over 25 backup applications,…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Hyperconverged, Instant Recovery, NFS, NoSQL, Purpose Built, Recovery in Place, Redundancy, Retention
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Creating a Petabyte-Scale Capable High Performance File Storage System
Modern unstructured workloads are setting new standards in terms of not only capacity requirements but also performance. These workloads either need to analyze and ingest hundreds of thousands of files or they need to quickly read files over a terabyte…
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