A vendor’s support of their backup application is an important priority for IT to understand as it looks for potential new backup solutions. Enterprise backup is unlike any other application in the data center. At some point in the backup…
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Hyperconverged for the Enterprise and the Cloud – Datrium Amazon Product Briefing
Converging compute, storage and networking into a single tier sounds good at first but as the architecture scales and tries to extend into the cloud, problems arise. Most hyperconverged infrastructures are “over-converged.” In most cases, the lowest common denominator is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Datrium, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Scale, VM
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Overcoming the Network Problems of High Capacity Flash in All-Flash Systems
Flash media is getting denser. There have been several announcements promising 50TB plus SSDs within the next six months. The distinct advantage for all-flash systems is they will be able to deliver Petabytes of capacity in just a few rack…
How do MSPs Stay Relevant in the Cloud Era? – Datto Briefing Note
The SaaS backup market went from almost non-existent to very crowded in a few short years. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) quickly tried to reposition themselves from selling on-premises solutions to the cloud-based solutions their customers were demanding. Several companies emerged…
Analysis of Actifio’s Results in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery
The definition of backup is always changing. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. When backups started being stored on disk, the tradition of putting backed up data into a container…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, IaaS, Object Storage, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Gartner’s Critical Capabilities of Data Center Backup and Recovery – An Analysis
The definition of backup has changed. Backed up files or databases were typically put into some type of container, such as tar. This was always the case with backup tapes, because there was simply no way to directly transfer a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Backup, Cloud, Container, Deduplication, Gartner, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Recovery, Tape, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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End to End VM Management Driven By Storage – Tintri Briefing Note
Organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in their virtual environments and as they grow, maintaining a consistent level of performance becomes a major problem. Most enterprises combat this challenge by over-provisioning resources; they buy too much compute and make massive investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hypervisor, Migration, QOS, Scale, Tintri, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Can Data Diversity Be Solved By a Single Storage System? – Quobyte Briefing Note
The modern data center has to deal with different use cases ranging from applications running inside of virtual machines or containers to massive amounts of unstructured data created by both users and devices. This data diversity almost always forces the…
Tagged with: Container, Data Lake, dr, Erasure code, IoT, Metadata, NFS, Quobyte, Replication, SMB, VM
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The Value of High Focused Data Protection – HYCU Backup for Nutanix
Anytime an enterprise considers a new platform it has to address one particular requirement; how exactly IT will protect the new platform. If the platform promises enough value, IT may forgo that requirement and cobble together a “best efforts” data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How To Make Your Private Cloud Act Like a Private Cloud – Turbonomic Briefing Note
The ultimate goal of a private cloud is to create a pool of compute, memory, networking and storage resources that allocate automatically to applications on an as needed basis. The cloud should ideally be 100% self-service and require almost no…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, Migration, Turbonomic, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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