Saturday Night Live (SNL) veteran Matt Yonks spoke about the show’s archival challenges at a special event hosted by Cloudian at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). Matt has been with SNL for 19 years and is their Post Production…
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What’s the Best Way to Store Unstructured Data? – Nodeum Briefing Note
The data storage world changes every day as do the demands of your organization. That means the best place to store your data today might not be the best place to store your data tomorrow. There are high performance options,…
Is There a Better Way to Backup Unstructured Data? – Igneous Briefing Note
It’s no secret that unstructured data is consuming data center tiles across the world. Structured data may have been king at one point, but the vast amount of storage in today’s data centers is being consumed by unstructured data. This…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Igneous, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Tape, Unstructured data
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What Should you Expect from Disk Backup in 2017?
You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
What are your Backup Storage Options?
When it came to selecting the storage target for an organization’s backups the choice was simple; tape. At the time, that is all there was. Now, though, there are an almost overwhelming number of options including fully integrated (including software)…
Why do Hyper-V Backups Waste Space?
There are too many traditional backup products trying to tackle a nontraditional backup problem. As a result, they continue to use some of the old world backup techniques in the very new world of IT. These techniques waste storage space,…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Hyper-V, Incremental backup, Nakivo, Synthetic Backup, Tape, VM
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The Importance of Protecting Cloud Hosted Applications
Anyone who thinks you don’t need to back up cloud applications such as salesforce, Office 365 and Google Apps clearly has some thinking to do. There is no such thing as the cloud. There is only someone else’s data center.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Disk, dr, Ransomware, Replication, Tape
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The Role of Tape in Today’s Data Center
The use of tape has certainly declined in today’s data center, but it has not disappeared – much to the chagrin of some people who are self-professed “tape haters”. They simply don’t understand why anyone would use tape in a…
Are you Asking the Right DR Questions
It’s a really sad thing when a customer gets far down the path of a project and finds out it is going to fail. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve seen this happen. A customer has…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Infrascale, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape
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What is Scale-Out NAS 2.0
Scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are designed to address the shortcomings of scale-up solutions. Namely scale-up solutions require IT professionals to accurately predict the performance and storage capacity needs for the life of the NAS. Scale-out solutions by comparison…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hard Disk Array, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SDS, Tape, Unstructured data
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