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SlideShare: Storage Refresh? 3 Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have (but probably doesn’t)
Tagged with: Fibre, file sync and share, Flash, ISCSI, Nexsan, NFS, SMB, Snapshots
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Posted in Slideshare
How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note
The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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Posted in Briefing Note
StorageShort: Are All-Flash Arrays Really the same Price as Hard Disk Arrays?
A claim that many all-flash vendors are making is they reached price parity with hard disk based arrays. If that is true, then organizations would be crazy to buy any storage system with a hard disk in it. But it…
Tagged with: file sync and share, Flash, ISCSI, NAS, Nexsan, NFS, SMB, Snapshots
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What are the Advantages of a Purpose-Built Cloud?
Some cloud backup providers are starting to build their own clouds for their purposes. Is that a good idea? Shouldn’t they use more general-purpose cloud providers like Amazon, Google, or Microsoft? What value can be derived from having your backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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Is It Time to Modernize NAS?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are the cornerstone of most organization’s storage architectures. For decades they’ve replaced legacy Windows or Linux file servers to provide SMB and NFS access from a single system that can support many more users. But…
Recovery From Ransomware
Ransomware, or the people who use it, are very successful in both infecting systems and extracting money from the organizations impacted by the infection. Most organizations we speak to face a ransomware infection multiple times per year, so if your…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Encryption, Hybrid, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery, Snapshots
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DR Ready Storage Must be Space Efficient
One of the biggest criticisms of using primary storage for DR is cost. Primary storage can be expensive, and using it in your DR plan essentially doubles your storage requirement. Therefore, it is essential that DR Ready storage use as…
Primary Storage Refresh is More than Flash
Primary storage refresh projects usually start from some combination of need for more performance, more capacity or because the storage system is coming off of maintenance. A key feature IT professionals look for in new primary storage system is flash.…
DR Ready Storage should be a Scalpel or a Saw?
A real disaster is the ultimate test of potentially years worth of planning. Disasters are unnerving because the IT professionals executing the recovery processes have the eyes of the entire organization and its customers on them. IT, which normally operates…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, dr, E-discovery, LUN, Replication, Snapshots, Tintri, VM
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Webinar: Storage Refresh? 3 Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have (but probably doesn’t)
If your organization is embarking on a refresh of your primary storage system this year, this is the one webinar that you will want to attend. IT evaluators that haven’t looked at storage in a few years will be impressed…
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