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2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide

Posted on February 6, 2018 by George Crump

Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…

Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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“Just Adding Another Node” – The Hidden HCI Scale Complexity

Posted on February 1, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is supposed to make scaling easier. When the architecture needs to deliver more compute power, storage performance or storage capacity, just add another node. The problem is “just adding another node”, especially as the number of nodes…

Tagged with: Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Can Software Defined Networking Bring Scale to HCI? – Big Switch HCI Briefing Note

Posted on January 26, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of those technologies that look great on the whiteboard. The idea of collapsing the compute, storage and networking tiers into one, and creating an infrastructure that automatically scales as each node is added to the…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hyperconverged, Redundancy, SAS, SATA, SDN, SSD, VM, VSAN
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Did HCI Create a Storage Problem to Solve a Storage Problem?

Posted on January 23, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) seems like a dream come true for IT professionals trying to deal with rapid data growth. HCI is built from a cluster of nodes, with each node providing compute, storage performance and storage capacity. When the organization…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cluster, HCI, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Can HyperConvergence Work at the Edge? – StorMagic Briefing Note

Posted on January 17, 2018 by George Crump

Edge computing, remote offices, branch offices (ROBO), small data centers, and IoT use cases are on the rise. Most research predicts that the amount of data stored outside the data center will be 40X more than what is stored inside…

Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-convergence, Hypervisor, IoT, Mirroring, ROBO, SAN, Scale, StorMagic, VM
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Why Backup is Breaking Hyper-Converged Infrastructures and How to Fix it

Posted on January 16, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is to simplify how to apply compute, network and storage resources to applications. Ideally, the data center’s IT needs are consolidated down to a single architecture that automatically scales as the organization needs…

Tagged with: Backup, Comtrade, dr, HCI, Hyper-convergence, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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NAS vs. The Unstructured Data Vault

Posted on January 15, 2018 by George Crump

There are two primary use cases for NAS. The first demands high performance when using NAS as primary storage to host application data and virtual machines. Modern NAS systems address this use case. The second, and more common, use is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB, Unstructured data, VM
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Webinar: 2018 Disaster Recovery Checklist – 5 Key Areas to Improve

Posted on January 11, 2018 by George Crump

Is your organization ready for any disaster 2018 may throw at it? Organizations not only face new threats they also encounter decreased tolerance for downtime from users. The good news is there are plenty of new solutions that claim to…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, Recovery, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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SlideShare: Veteran vs. Rookie – Who is Best Able to Meet The Enterprise Backup Challenge?

Posted on January 5, 2018 by George Crump

Backup and Recovery remain a constant challenge for most enterprises. New vendors appear on the horizon constantly to “solve” the problem. But are these “rookies” really up to the challenge or are they actually making the situation worse? Join us…

Tagged with: Backup, CDM, Cloud, dr, Recovery, RPO, RTO, Unitrends, Unstructured data, VM
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Putting the Wheels Back on Your Data Center Modernization Project

Posted on January 4, 2018 by George Crump

Most Global 2000 IT Infrastructure and Operations Managers feel like the wheels have come off their data center modernization project. The goal was to create an environment that can respond to the needs of thousands of applications simultaneously and automatically.…