Many organizations want to develop a cloud strategy, but most don’t know where to begin. As a result, the organization stumbles into the cloud, often starting with using the cloud as a secondary backup storage area, with the hope that…
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Developing a Practical Cloud Strategy for Traditional Data Centers
Tagged with: Archive, Bursting, Cloud, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Virtualization, Zerto
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The Storage Problems That HCI Creates
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI), as they scale, start to experience several storage challenges. HCI deals with any scaling requirement with a single move, adding a node. This additional node comes with CPU and Memory to meet the compute demand, flash storage…
Avoid the Two Big Hybrid IT Protection Mistakes
Hybrid IT means that data is both on-premises and in the cloud. Increasingly it also means that IT needs to distribute data across multiple sites within the organization and move data between various cloud providers. Hybrid IT is an attempt…
Hybrid IT Changes Disaster Recovery
It used to be that organizations consolidated all data into one location. All a disaster recovery planner had to do, which was still no easy task, was get that data backed up and get a copy sent to an off-site…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hybrid, Hybrid IT, IoT, Micro Focus, Replication, SaaS
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Webinar: Moving the Enterprise Backup to the Cloud – A Step-By-Step Guide
Making sure everything in the data center is properly protected is a common struggle that all data centers face. The cloud, cloud backup, seems like an answer to all those struggles. But, how exactly does IT make the conversion from…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, KeepItSafe, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: Unstructured Data Protection Needs a New Architecture
Unstructured data has changed dramatically over the past decade. It is not only bigger in terms of capacity, it’s also bigger in terms of quantity, there are just more files to deal with than ever. On top of the increase…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Migration, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video: What’s Your Unstructured Data Protection Strategy
The capacity requirements of unstructured data continue to grow at an alarming rate and the rate of growth is only going to get worse. Storing is problem enough but protecting unstructured data is creating a new challenge that most data…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Deduplication, Migration, Retention, SaaS, Unstructured data
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Why the Cloud Breaks Backup
For organizations that realize their backups are broken, the cloud appears to be an appealing way out of the mess. The problem is most legacy backup applications don’t have integrated cloud support, so leveraging the cloud either requires a bolt-on…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SMB
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Can Hyperconverged Work in the Enterprise?
Hyperconverged architectures have an enterprise problem because while they start off simple enough, as they scale they becoming increasingly complex and waste resources. Storage capacity and performance are particularly difficult to use efficiently. Also, intra-networking, when there are a dozen…
SlideShare: Considering Hyperconverged for Your Enterprise? Three Key Questions to Ask
Over the last few years, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments have been on the increase. HCI combines server, storage and networking into a single system building block, however, it introduces many new complexities into your environment. Listen as Storage Switzerland and…
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