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Take “Create DR Plan” OFF of Your 2020 Project Goals

Posted on December 18, 2019 by George Crump

If disaster strikes, the purpose of a disaster recovery plan (DRP) is to guide the available IT personnel through the process of recovering the data center, either at an alternate site owned by the company or a facility owned by…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CSP, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, DRP, iland, Replication, RTO, VMware
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VMware Storage Needs Intelligence and Awareness for a Different Experience

Posted on September 26, 2019 by George Crump

VMware continues to be at the heart of many data center infrastructures and will continue to be that heart for years, if not decades to come. Many of these infrastructures are still struggling however with the most basic of data…

Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Windows 2008 File Server? What to do now

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

One of the popular use cases for Windows Server 2008 is as a file server but on January 14th Microsoft stopped supporting the 2008 version of the operating system. Those using Server 2012 as a file server can assume that…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Why VMware Storage is STILL a Problem

Posted on August 29, 2019 by George Crump

Most VMware storage solutions attempt to fix storage pain points with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. While the sledgehammer approach does solve or at least mask some VMware storage problems, many still remain. More importantly, the life of the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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SlideShare: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations need to make sure their backup infrastructure can meet the recovery objectives of today’s biggest challenges: ransomware, rapid restoration and disasters. Businesses expect their IT teams to recover faster than ever and they need business performance to be the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, StorageCraft, VMware
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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

Windows File Servers are popular for a number of reasons. First, they are easy to setup, any Administrator that has stood up a Windows Server can create a Windows File Server. Second, the software is essentially free with most licensing…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Reduxio Focuses on Container-Native Storage

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Making Persistent Storage for Production Kubernetes Attainable Containers have become highly popular among DevOps shops due to their advantages in the areas of agility, simplicity and scalability. These same qualities make them attractive candidates for hosting modern applications such as…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, ML, NVMe, NVMeoF, Reduxio, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, Virtualization, VMware
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How to Facilitate Rapid Recovery

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Krista Macomber

It’s no secret that rapid recovery is a non-negotiable business requirement today. Very few applications can stand even moments of downtime, never mind hours. However, getting there requires multiple steps that are not always immediately clear. The first step to…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SLA, StorageCraft, VM, VMware
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How to Overcome the NAS Silo Problem

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Gone are the days of the single site enterprise that relied on files being manually emailed between employees for collaboration. We live today in the world of the multi-site, agile enterprise. Users across the globe must be able to simultaneously…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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