Verifying that you’re ready for a disaster is difficult but not impossible. The three elements of your infrastructure that must be present for a successful recovery from a disaster are compute, network, and storage. Let’s take a look at how…
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Successful Disaster Recovery? – Trust but Verify
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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How Does DRaaS Work? A Step by Step Description
Disaster Recovery As a Service (DRaaS) is an increasingly popular method for businesses of all sizes to address shortcomings in their disaster recovery plan. By leveraging a combination of cloud backup and virtualization, providers are able to provide organizations with…
Why you Should Back Up Hyper-V to the Cloud
If data in your Hyper-V system is worth backing up, it’s worth copying and storing off-site. Too many things can go wrong to a data center that can damage both the servers and backups – if those backups are stored…
Solve Your Storage Headache – Unlimited Scale but Controlled – Qumulo Core 2.6 Briefing Note
Then and Now Over the last decade, organizations have experienced massive changes in the data center and the storage industry. Workloads found in modern data centers today are vastly different from what was common back in the days of dedicated…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, RAID, Scale, Virtualization, VM
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Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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The Advantages of a Fabric Based File System
Storage solutions that offer customers familiar, flexible interfaces (e.g.files and file attributes), while also offering advanced features like automated data movement and cloud bursting, offer a unique solution to many problems. The more seamless we can make things for the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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The Value of NAS Integrated Backup in a Virtualized Environment
Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers are widely used for storing virtual machine backups. What’s been lacking is a method to integrate the two workload types that many consider mutually exclusive: backup software and backup storage. The Advantage of On-Appliance Backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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What is a Data Fabric?
When most IT professionals hear the phrase “storage is growing”, they typically roll their eyes and assume the vendor is talking about the unprecedented growth we’ve seen in data capacity requirements over the last decade or so. But storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Elastifile, Migration, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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Got Servers? – Get Storage – NooBaa Briefing Note
One of the requirements facing buyers of software defined storage (SDS) is that, by definition, it still requires hardware. SDS Vendors deliver some solutions in the form of either a dedicated appliance, some offer flexibility by specifying a Hardware Compatibility…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Hybrid, Metadata, NooBaa, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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It’s Important to get Hyper-V Backups Right
It’s very easy to find yourself far down the path of virtualization and forget something so trivial as backup. This is not a problem new to virtualization, as backup has often been on the sidelines in many people’s eyes. But…
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