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Making Storage Consolidation a Reality

Posted on October 21, 2016 by George Crump

INFINIDAT Briefing Note The concept of a single storage system to serve the entire data center has been with us as long as the data center itself. But now we are seeing an explosion in the number and variety of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, DRAM, Flash, Infinidat, Latency, NAS, SAN, Snapshot, Storage Sprawl
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How and Why to Protect Against Ransomware

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Ransomware is the latest and greatest threat from those wishing to profit from doing harm to data. While it started as a threat to consumer data, it is clearly expanding into a full-on assault against corporate data, which costs companies…

Tagged with: Backup, CDP, Encryption, Malware, NFS, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, SMB, Snapshot
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How hard is it to do DR for VMware/Hyper-V?

Posted on October 11, 2016 by wcurtispreston

You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…

Tagged with: dr, HCI, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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Data Management as a Strategy – Commvault Go 2016

Posted on October 5, 2016 by George Crump

A complete data management requires solutions for data protection, data preservation, copy management, data mobility, data classification, data search and disaster recovery. There are numerous point solutions on the market today that address these needs, but most only cover one…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Commvault, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Integration, Replication, Snapshot
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DR Strategies for Hyperconverged Architectures

Posted on September 21, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. The question is do they help solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environment have: DR? The answer may come down to what hypervisor they…

Tagged with: dr, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale Computing, Snapshot, SRM
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Nexenta Releases Storage for Persistent Docker Containers

Posted on September 20, 2016 by wcurtispreston

What if you do not consider one of the greatest advantages of containers to be an advantage to you? Many tout the stateless nature of containers as their single greatest feature. They start up, they accomplish their task, and they…

Tagged with: Clones, Compression, Container, Deduplication, Nexenta, Snapshot
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Bringing Copy Data Management to Pure Storage

Posted on September 14, 2016 by George Crump

Catalogic Briefing Note The goal of a copy data management (CDM) solution is to limit the number of secondary copies of data by combining advanced snapshots and replication with orchestration to automate how secondary copies of data are presented to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Catalogic, CDM, Compression, Deduplication, Pure, Replication, Snapshot
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Performance Issues with a Full NetApp Filer

Posted on September 12, 2016 by wcurtispreston

A full filer is not going to perform as well as one that has a little space to do its work. That’s why we’ve been talking about the concept of a “thin provisioned” filer, or a filer that has been…

Tagged with: Caringo, Defragmentation, NetApp, Object Storage, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Hyperconvergence and VDI – The Perfect Match?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by George Crump

Atlantis Briefing Note Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) look good on the IT whiteboard. Their lower operational costs and longer desktop/laptop life expectancy are top expectations. In execution, however, the projects often stall. Calculating the necessary compute performance, storage performance and…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, performance, Snapshot, Thin provisioning, VDI
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Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem

Posted on September 7, 2016 by George Crump

Maxta Briefing Note Hyperconvergence is a compelling solution to organizations trying to simplify their virtual infrastructures in an effort to be more “cloud-like”. The technology consolidates storage software into the hypervisor of a virtual infrastructure, eliminating the need for a…