Enterprise backup is at times a behemoth. While it does provide the data center a foundational level of protection, the solutions tend to be slow to adopt new environments and too heavy-handed to solve specific feature requests. As a result,…
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Rethinking the Role of Enterprise Data Protection – IBM Briefing Note
Tagged with: Analytics, Data recovery, Data Reuse, IBM, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtualization, VM
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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality
Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, NVMe, Tegile, Virtualization
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Mergers and Data Protection – The Cost of Doing Nothing
One of the most significant challenges when two organizations merge is what to do with the data protection process. In all likelihood, before the merger, each organization had its data protection practices and policy. The overwhelming tendency is to do…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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What is the Value of Hybrid Flash in an All-Flash Era?
When flash storage first became viable for the enterprise, it was also very expensive. Early devices where low in capacity as well. Hybrid systems overcame these two shortcomings by mixing hard disk and flash technologies. These systems added the capability…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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Solving the Storage Problem of Data Center Modernization – Datera Briefing Note
A decade ago when cloud providers like Amazon entered the market, they redefined how to provision IT services. These services provided self-service capability that raised the bar for how users and application owners wanted to interact with IT. The mission…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Datera, Flash, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Five Distributed Data Protection Challenges
One of the biggest challenges facing IT today is how to effectively protect data distributed between offices and across clouds. Companies with remote and branch locations, and newly merged organizations are all at risk of losing their critical data or…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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What is Software Defined Networking?
Like other software defined initiatives, software defined networking (SDN) abstracts the networking operating environment from the hardware switches and controller. The SDN promise is to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by managing a set of physical top of rack…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, ROI, SDN, SDS, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note
Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Ransomware, SMB, Unitrends, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How to Solve VMware Problems, Not Just Knowing About Them – Runecast Briefing Note
Troubleshooting is a big part of the VMware Administrator’s job description. The problem is that most troubleshooting is a reactive process where something has to break before IT leaps into action. The situation gets worse because after a problem has…
Tagged with: Hyperconverged, Migration, Runecast, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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The Hub Problem with Distributed Backup
Protecting data at remote offices and distributed data centers is challenging to say the least. Typically, organizations try to implement backup locally by installing a backup server and some disk or tape. IT then tries to manage the process remotely…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM
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