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Lightboard Video: 5 Essential Storage Needs for Global 1000 Cloud Deployments

Posted on January 29, 2020 by George Crump

As the large enterprises look to the cloud to deliver agility and remove complexity and cost, data requirements and storage infrastructure often stands right in the way of achieving organizational goals. To get storage out of the way so IT…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HCI, HDD, Hyperconverged, ML, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined
Posted in Video

What is Purpose-Built Backup?

Posted on January 7, 2020 by George Crump

Consolidation of backup hardware and software is perpetually on the mind of IT professionals. At some point, a well-meaning IT Manager initiates a consolidation effort to try to simplify backup operations by consolidating backup hardware and software onto a single…

Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, HCDP, Hybrid, HYCU, Hypervisor, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, TCO
Posted in Article

Does All-Flash Kill Data Management?

Posted on December 16, 2019 by George Crump

Most of today’s modern storage systems have a scale-out design, meaning they can expand to meet almost all of the data center’s capacity requirements. Also, since an increasing number of these systems are all-flash, they can meet most data center’s…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Tape
Posted in Blog

2020 Will Be THE Year for NVMe-oF

Posted on December 10, 2019 by George Crump

Technology rarely has “a year.” In most cases, what is that technology’s year is the accumulation of previous years’ worth of work until one year pushes the technology over the top in terms of adoption. With that admission, 2020 will…

Tagged with: Cloud, DAS, Flash, Kioxia, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Scale-Out, Shared Storage
Posted in Blog

Meeting the Storage Challenges of Azure Stack Edge Deployments

Posted on December 9, 2019 by George Crump

The public cloud is typically looked on as the great consolidator. Organizations, small and large, use the cloud as a hub for data storage and distribution. Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of edge use cases, and the major…

Tagged with: Cloud, Edge Computing, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scale-Out, Scality, SMB, Software Defined
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 13, 2019 by George Crump

Commvault has acquired Hedvig. What are the ramifications for the combined companies and the storage industry? Find out in our on demand presentation where we have Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO of Commvault and Avinash Lakshman, CEO of Hedvig in a special…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

Creating an Accessible Archive for Media and Entertainment

Posted on September 12, 2019 by George Crump

The traditional Media and Entertainment (M&E) market is exploding with new producers of content for movies and television. It is also seeing significant growth in sports television, corporate training and worship broadcasting. All of these content creators benefit from a…

Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, HPC, M&E, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scale-Out
Posted in Briefing Note

How to Meet the New Data Protection Requirements

Posted on September 9, 2019 by George Crump

Data protection, specifically the backup process, is a foundational element of most data center architectures. The requirements of that foundation though are shifting from an insurance policy that the organization hopes it rarely needs to an active component of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Hybrid, Migration, Retention, Scale-Out, Test/Dev
Posted in Briefing Note

Special Presentation of Meet The CEOs – Commvault and Hedvig

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, Hedvig, Hybrid, Migration, Ransomware, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Software Defined
Posted in Webinar

Commvault Buys Hedvig – Insights and Ramifications

Posted on September 4, 2019 by George Crump

The data protection market is at a crossroads. Traditional software vendors like Commvault, EMC-Dell, Veeam and Veritas provide data protection software that resellers or end-users install on servers and storage they acquire separately. The approach tends to be services heavy.…