Docker is for ephemeral data and shouldn’t have data that needs to be backed up. Or at least that’s what I was told for a while. And then I met the head of development for a large bank in Australia…
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Veeam moves to the Public Cloud: Veeam V9
Veeam has been a leader in the private cloud world for a while now, but in its latest release it set its sights on using the public cloud in the same way their customers have. It is also adding support…
Solving the Ransomware Problem – Backup or Cloud Storage?
Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with backups are that they are not…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Global File System, NAS, Nasuni, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Easing Amazon EBS Snapshot Pain, for Free
It’s a major pain to manage snapshots in Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS). It’s essentially a single command line with very limited capabilities. The result is that developers writing applications for AWS find themselves building tools to…
What Exactly is Software Defined Storage?
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) separates the storage software from the storage hardware. The result should be a model that allows organizations to buy storage hardware systems from multiple vendors that address specific use cases but have the ability to operate, not…
The Problems with VMware Snapshots
There are generally three ways we create snapshots in this world: copy-on-write, redirect-on-write, and VMware’s way. As a result, you should delete VMware snapshots as soon as possible – preferably within a few minutes of their creation. A previous post…
Snapshot 101: Copy-on-write vs Redirect-on-write
There are two very different ways to create snapshots: copy-on-write and redirect-on-write. If IT is considering using the snapshot functionality of their storage system, it is essential to understand which type of snapshot it creates and the pros and cons…
Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Not a One Trick, Hyper-Converged Pony
HP StoreVirtual Briefing Note HP’s journey to hyper-convergence started in Colorado when they purchased LeftHand Networks. The LeftHand Networks solution was one of the first software-based storage solutions and one of the first scale-out storage solutions. It also happened to…
Tagged with: Data Replication, Flash, HDD, HP, Hyper-convergence, LeftHand, Scale-Out, Snapshot, SSD
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Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
Tagged with: Backup, Clone, DataDirect Networks, DDN, HPC, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot, Virtualization
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