Archiving is a lot more than buying an object storage system and putting old files on it. There are a lot of things to consider before creating an archiving strategy. How do you archive? What are the best practices? Do…
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Can the Cloud Get IT Archiving?
The ROI of an archive project sounds good on paper. Implement archive, get near instant recalls of moved data, and reduce storage footprint by 85% or more. The problem is no archive implementation really does that. In our latest white…
Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover…
How To Simplify Branch Office Connectivity – Silver Peak Briefing Note
The modern data center enterprise is made up of mobile workers and many offices of different sizes. The problem is branch connectivity is left out of the modernization effort. The days of a single main headquarters data center location are…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, MPLS, QOS, SaaS, SD-WAN, Silver Peak, Software Defined, VPN, WAN
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What is Enterprise Data as a Service
The IT “as a service” model is working well for organizations. It enables them to start small and scale quickly as IT demand increases. And IT as a service’s value is not limited to start up companies. Organizations of all…
How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note
The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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Overcome the Data Protection Dilemma – Vembu Briefing Note
Virtualization through hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V have simplified the data protection and application recovery processes but they have not made it less expensive. Additionally most of these virtualization-specific data protection solutions are almost too myopic, ignoring physical machines all…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, SaaS, Vembu, Virtualization, VMware
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ChalkTalk Video: Bring Clarity to Storage Analytics
It’s time that the different parts of the computing world knew about each other, says Shai Maskit, Director of Technical Marketing from Kaminario, in speaking with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump. He explained how the computing world is divided into three…
SlideShare: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
Webinar: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
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