A ransomware attack puts IT in a battle against the malware author. To the victor goes the data. Every organization needs a prevention strategy. It also must realize that at some point the virus will get through, and at that…
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Product Analysis – How Rubrik Handles Ransomware Recovery
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud Backup, HDD, NFS, Ransomware, Recovery, Rubrik, SQL, SSD
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Is it Time to De-Tape Your Archive?
Enterprises want more value from their archived data assets but tape doesn’t really enable the real-time archive that organizations need. The challenges is that any enterprise in existence for 10 years or longer more than likely has terabytes, even petabytes,…
Deep Dive XtremIO X2 – Dell EMC World 2017
The press releases are out there but they only cover the XtremIO announcement at a high level. It’s time for a deeper dive. At Dell EMC World, Storage Switzerland spent quality time on the XtremIO X2 update. It promises increased…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Flash, Latency, QOS, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, XtremIO
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How to Tame Data and Storage Sprawl with a Cross-Cloud Data Fabric
Over the last decade, the modern data center has evolved into a complex, virtualized environment that hosts many different types of applications ranging from legacy applications to new next-gen applications, while also struggling to securely store, manage, and monetize the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, QOS, Scale, SSD, Storage Sprawl
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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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Are We Using Windows File Servers for the Wrong Reason?
Windows file servers are primarily used to store unstructured data. The type of unstructured data varies from user-created documents to machine-generated audio and video. They even store analytics data machines and other servers generate. While the type of data a…
SlideShare: Modern Storage Infrastructures for Modernized Data Centers
Organizations are modernizing their data centers by implementing technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Splunk, Spark and Hadoop. The “default” storage infrastructures for these technologies were originally designed to use direct attached hard disk drives to make access local and reduce costs.…
What to expect from your VMware Storage
VMware changed the data center so much that it is hard to imagine a world without virtualization. One challenge for VMware customers (still) – as well as customers of other hypervisors – is storage technology hasn’t always kept pace with…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Fibre Channel, Hedvig, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Replication, SAS, SATA, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, VMware
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StorageShort: The Problem With Splunk Storage Management
Of all the new applications on the market today, Splunk does make one of the best attempts to manage storage. It uses a bucket metaphor to make sure data is in the most performance and cost appropriate storage type. When…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Container, Flash, IOPS, performance, Splunk, SSD, Tegile
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The Storage Challenges that Cassandra and Couchbase Create
Traditionally databases are scale up, running on a single powerful but expensive server. Distributed databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are scale-out and run on commodity white box servers, each of which becomes a node in a cluster. Traditional databases are…
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