As organizations move into the cloud era, they have to deal with data gravity. Data gravity means that data has a size to it and it takes time to move data from point A to point B. Data’s gravity is…
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Defeating Data Gravity with a Data Pipeline
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Copy Data, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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StorCentric Acquires Retrospect – Comprehensive Primary through Secondary Storage Capabilities
The lines between primary and secondary storage infrastructures are blurring. Today’s typical backup and disaster recovery workloads require faster performance while production workloads demand growing amounts of capacity. IT requires as consolidated a storage infrastructure as possible for simplicity. At…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, DAS, Disaster recovery, Drobo, EU, GDPR, NAS, Nexsan, RAID, Ransomware, Retrospect, SAN, SMB, StorCentric
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How Do I Prepare for PCIe Gen 4?
2019 will be the year that new CPUs and motherboards supporting the fourth generation of the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface (PCIe 4.0) will come to market – meaning that new storage systems using the interface are also on…
Actifio Data Driven 2019 – What is Digital Transformation and How Do I Get There?
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about digital transformation and the need to harness data for competitive advantage. What we don’t spend enough time talking about is what that actually means in terms of business objectives,…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, DataDriven2019, Disaster recovery, Egress Fees, Metadata, Migration, SMB
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Converged Data Protection – The Components Matter
Converged or hyperconverged data protection typically delivers a solution to the customer as a single SKU, but that SKU is made up of several components. Each component within the converged architecture is critical to the overall success of the solution.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft, VMware
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Why Workload Modeling and Monitoring for NVMe-oF?
When migrating to new technology, it is always important to conduct a careful cost/benefit analysis, to understand what the return on the new investment will be. It is also necessary to be sure that the investment will provide desired outcomes…
15 Minute Webinar: NVMe Readiness Assessment
Most All-Flash Arrays were bought in the last few years and have not come anywhere close to “end of life,” yet most vendors are now shipping NVMe All-Flash Arrays which offer better performance. As enticing as these new systems might…
How to Make Storage Consolidation Work in the Modern Data Center
Most data centers give up on their storage consolidation projects. The storage mainframe approach described in blog 2 is too costly and too restrictive, and the traditional software-defined storage approach described in blog 3 doesn’t support broad enough use cases.…
Tagged with: Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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What is Data Management?
A smart and holistic data management platform is the linchpin to enterprise competitiveness, but at this point in time, it remains largely a nirvana that storage managers are chasing. In this article, Storage Switzerland explains what constitutes data management, how…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Archive, CCPA, Containers, Data Privacy, eDiscovery, EU, GDPR, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, ML, NFS, NVMe, SLA, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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Using HCI to Optimize SMB and ROBO Storage Availability, Capacity and Performance – StarWind Briefing Note
IT organizations at small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch office (ROBO) environments face unique challenges. Like their counterparts at larger organizations, they are pressured to empower new, data-driven business insights in real-time, to respond with agility to dynamic business…
Tagged with: Flash, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, Replication, ROBO, SDS, SLA, SMB, StarWind, Tape, Virtualization, VM
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