Archiving, as a concept, looks great on paper. It alleviates primary storage capacity, simplifies data protection and lowers overall storage cost. The problem is when it is necessary to search for and retrieve data in that archive, or worst case…
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Is the Data Center Ready for Flash Archives? – Nimbus Data Briefing Note
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Archiving, Cloud, Flash, Hard disk, Nimbus Data, SSD, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Creating a Tape Exit Strategy – BridgeSTOR Briefing Note
While one can argue the pros and cons of a tape exit decision, no one can argue the fact that organizations are making that decision every day. If an organization decides to eliminate tape from its data protection strategy it…
How To Bring Tape Back to the Mid-Market Data Center – Spectra Logic Briefing Note
Tape is not dead. It has three valuable use cases. First, it is still a great backup of last resort. The copy of data an organization can count on when everything else has failed. Second, it is ideal for organizations…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, LTO, Object Storage, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: All-Flash in 2018 – What You Need to Know
The All-Flash era is well upon us, and most data centers consider an all-flash product storage tier both realistic and practical. But the flash industry continues to march on. New technologies like NVMe and ultra high-density flash modules promise to…
Why and How to Change Backup Solutions – Catalogic Briefing Note
Almost every organization is looking for a better backup solution. Given the number of new solutions that appear on the market, seemingly every day, IT needs to decide why they need to change backup solutions and then how to replace…
Tagged with: BLI, Block Level Backup, Catalogic, Cloud, dr, MS-SQL, NAS, Ransomware, Retention, SQL, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Product Spotlight: Introducing Tiger Technology’s Tiger Bridge Software
Tiger Technology is a company with deep roots solving the storage management problems of companies in the media and entertainment market. Tiger is now broadening its reach to enterprise data centers as a whole. By proving themselves in the very…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, M&E, Metadata, Migrate, NAS, NTFS, Object Storage, Tape, Tiger Technology
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Overcoming the Network Problems of High Capacity Flash in All-Flash Systems
Flash media is getting denser. There have been several announcements promising 50TB plus SSDs within the next six months. The distinct advantage for all-flash systems is they will be able to deliver Petabytes of capacity in just a few rack…
Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery
The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Posted in Blog
Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Webinar: All-Flash in 2018 – What You Need to Know
The All-Flash era is well upon us, and most data centers consider an all-flash product storage tier both realistic and practical. But the flash industry continues to march on. New technologies like NVMe and ultra high-density flash modules promise to…
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