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Does Networking as a Service Make Sense? – Datto Briefing Note

The “as a service” moniker is appearing everywhere. Everything from storage to compute to networking is now being offered as a service. More and more companies are opting to have service providers provide their core infrastructure services – as a

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Overcome the Data Protection Dilemma – Vembu Briefing Note

Virtualization through hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V have simplified the data protection and application recovery processes but they have not made it less expensive. Additionally most of these virtualization-specific data protection solutions are almost too myopic, ignoring physical machines all

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Improving Data Protection with Data Virtualization – Actifio Briefing Note

Anyone in IT these days is painfully aware of the challenge organizations face dealing with ever-increasing amounts of data they need to properly store and protect. The irony is that the majority of data growth is not just the new

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ChalkTalk Video: How to Backup Cassandra and MongoDB

Data center backup simply wasn’t built for cloud applications like Cassandra and MongoDB. That was Shalabh Goyal’s main point when I interviewed him last week as the Director of Products for Datos IO, and I couldn’t help but agree with

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Backup isn’t good enough anymore

Backup just isn’t good enough anymore. Restoring isn’t good enough anymore. Today’s users expect much more. I’m a bit of an old fogey when it comes to backup. I made my first backup to a cassette tape attached to a

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Introducing DRaaS 2.0

When Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was first introduced its advantages were immediately obvious to the organizations that chose to use it. Namely the cost savings in not having to equip and operate a remote DR site. But limitations

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Simplifying Infrastructure Performance Management for IBM Spectrum – SVA BVQ Briefing Note

Today’s enterprise data center is a complicated virtualized storage infrastructure that has to function reliably and efficiently on a full time basis. It also has to be able to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. A key part of this infrastructure

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Making DRaaS Make Even More Sense – Bluelock Briefing Note

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) continues to grow on both the demand and the supply side of the equation. While some still wonder if DRaaS makes sense for their business, many customers and vendors alike are flocking to the

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SlideShare: DR Strategies For Hyperconverged Architectures

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR,

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Real-time Performance Analysis for the Hybrid Data Center – Virtual Instruments Briefing

The modern data center is hybrid – while most of its applications are still on premises, an increasing number are moving to the cloud. In addition, data centers find the need to increase scale and instantly adapt to changes in

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