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Whiteboard Video: The Advantages of Migrating Tape Technologies
Migrating from one generation to another generation of tape technology may seem like a difficult task. In practice, though, tape migration is relatively straightforward and provides tremendous ROI thanks to each generation’s increase in performance and capacity. In this Whiteboard…
What is Purpose-Built Backup?
Consolidation of backup hardware and software is perpetually on the mind of IT professionals. At some point, a well-meaning IT Manager initiates a consolidation effort to try to simplify backup operations by consolidating backup hardware and software onto a single…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, HCDP, Hybrid, HYCU, Hypervisor, Purpose Built, Scale-Out, TCO
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Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 2: Technical Expertise
The new era of data analytics has opened up a new opportunity for storage professionals to become strategic partners and advisers to line of business stakeholders. The problem is that completing analytics queries is taking far too long – frequently…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
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Meet Application Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Without Breaking Your Storage Budget
Effective application performance management (APM) is fundamental to business success. Businesses are relying on applications for differentiated end customer experiences, smoother internal collaboration, and for innovation. Fundamental to making sure that business critical applications are running smoothly (i.e. they are…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, TCO, Virtualization, VM
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Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 1: Business and IT Disconnect
Data analytics has become table stakes for competitive differentiation. As a result, businesses require their analytics-driven insights as quickly as possible. The reality is, however, that queries often take weeks or even months to complete. One of the key logjams…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
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MeetTheCEO: Promethium’s Kaycee Lai
Kaycee Lai appeared on Storage Switzerland’s Meet The CEO series of webinars. Lai and Promethium have a unique vantage point into the key bottleneck that is greatly slowing down the time it takes to arrive at data-driven business intelligence: data…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Cloud, Data Lake, MeetTheCEO, ML, Promethium, SQL, TCO
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The State of the Software-Defined Data Center
The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, CSP, Data Protection, Scale-Out, SDDC, SLA, Software Defined, TCO, Virtualization
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How Can I Cut Storage Costs?
Cutting storage costs is not a straightforward equation. There are many variable factors that impact the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a storage infrastructure. In this blog, we will provide a few things that IT professionals can do to…
Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, TCO, Virtualization, VM
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Knee (or Neck) Deep in Storage Systems Management? Try a More Intelligent Approach
Minimizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximizing the uptime of storage infrastructure has never been more important. More data is being captured and utilized by the business, and a new tier of premium-priced non-volatile memory express (NVMe) arrays…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, SQL, SSD, TCO, Western Digital
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