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Reducing Backup Costs Requires Invincible Primary Storage
The cost of the backup infrastructure consumes a large portion of the IT budget. Reducing backup costs requires invincible primary storage that can protect itself. An invincible primary storage system also needs to provide all the services that IT typically…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Enterprise Storage Platform, RAID, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, StorONE
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Posted in Article
Solving the Unstructured Data Protection Problem by Creating A Cloud Foundation
When organizations try to establish a cloud strategy, one of the challenges they face is where to begin. The problem is the cloud can do so much, like run applications, and provide advanced services and store data, to name just…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplicate, Encryption, Hammerspace, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
How and Why to Develop a Robust File Retention Strategy
Backup applications, generally speaking, store the data they protect for a given amount of time. Increasingly, the default setting for most organizations is forever. While we are not opposed to a forever retention strategy, long term retention should not be…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, GDPR, Purpose Built, Ransomware, Snapshot, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, Virtualize
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Posted in Blog
Overcoming HCI Transition Problems
As they consider a potential transition to a hyperconverged architecture (HCI), organizations need to decide how to migrate data to the HCI platform. They also need to decide what to do with their legacy storage infrastructure that still will be…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Lightboard Video: Fulfilling The SDS Promise
Central to the promise of software-defined storage (SDS) is the core tenet that organizations have a single interface to manage all of their diverse storage resources. Unlike most SDS solutions, which fail to fulfill this core principle, DataCore Software is…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Lightboard Video: How to Move to HCI while retaining the best of SANs
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) vendors claim the elimination of Storage Area Networks (SANs) as one of their key advantages. Yet they fail to consider the investments made in those SANs-simply expecting you to disregard those valuable assets and start from scratch.…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Unlocking Software Defined Storage
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a concept that sometimes benefits vendors more so than it benefits customers. Most SDS vendors are shifting from a model that was software only to one that includes hardware. SDS is still advantageous to these vendors…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Dell Cloud Snapshot Manager
Embracing SaaS for Multi-Cloud Data Protection Modern cloud workloads exist across heterogeneous, multi-cloud infrastructures, but the cloud services that host them lack rich, native data protection toolsets. While snapshot features typically exist in the cloud they are not automated and…
MeetTheCEO: Cloud Daddy’s Spencer Kupferman
As businesses migrate more of their data and applications to the cloud, a more comprehensive and mature disaster recovery implementation is required. Cloud service providers have built a base layer of data protection capabilities that focus primarily on enabling recovery…
Tagged with: AWS, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Daddy, Cyber Attack, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Malware, Replication, Retention, Snapshot
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