Most organizations use the cloud in a hybrid manner. Some applications and workloads remain on-premises, while some are transitory between on-premises and the cloud, and still others are cloud only. The distributed IT model puts a new strain on the…
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Rethinking the Role of Enterprise Data Protection – IBM Briefing Note
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,…
Tagged with: Analytics, Data recovery, Data Reuse, IBM, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
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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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, Virtualization, Cloud, VM, Migration, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery
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Posted in Slideshare
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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SlideShare: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It
IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Endpoint, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM
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Posted in Slideshare
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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