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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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Reducing the Cost of Scaling Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on June 12, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions start innocently enough. The organization starts with two or three nodes and initially it handles all their compute, and storage needs quite well. As the environment scales because of the growth of the initial workloads or…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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Webinar: Ransomware, Rapid Restoration and Disasters – Recovering from Backup’s Three Biggest Challenges!

Posted on June 6, 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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Converged Data Protection – The Components Matter

Posted on June 4, 2019 by George Crump

Converged or hyperconverged data protection typically delivers a solution to the customer as a single SKU, but that SKU is made up of several components. Each component within the converged architecture is critical to the overall success of the solution.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft, VMware
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NAKIVO 8.5 Briefing Note

Posted on May 20, 2019 by George Crump

Protecting VMs in a Multi-Hypervisor World In most organizations, day-to-day applications run in a virtual machine on a hypervisor. VMware tends to be the most common hypervisor in use with Hyper-V quickly gaining ground. However, a new hypervisor from Nutanix,…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Replication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Nakivo, Replication, ROI, RTO, Virtual machine, VMware
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Paper: How to Reduce the Cost of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on May 16, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) promise affordability and simplicity because they are created with commodity servers which are clustered together. These servers are called nodes and the infrastructure expands by adding additional nodes to the cluster. Additional nodes though, mean making space…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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Azure + Nasuni – The Future of NAS?

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

File storage capacity requirements are growing exponentially, and at the same time, these files must be protected and accessible by a range of users across the globe who must also collaborate on these files, in real time. Legacy network-attached storage…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Dell Technologies World – The Dell Technologies Data Protection Strategy

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Dell Technologies is evolving its data protection strategy to emphasize data management. As it does so, it is focusing its portfolio on being both “software-defined” (in that solutions may be deployed on-premises as stand-alone software or pre-integrated into an appliance),…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Containers, Data Privacy, Dell, Dell World, Dell World 2019, Flash, HCI, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization, VMware
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Optimizing Efficiency for the Multi-Cloud World

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Dell Technologies World 2019 Primary Storage Updates The storage strategy for the modern enterprise, at its core, centers on getting the right data to the right user at the right time. However, this is a difficult task that requires the…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Dell World 2019, EMC, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, MSP, NAS, NVMe, Virtualization, VMware
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The Next Generation of HCI: Intelligent Management and Multi-Cloud Support

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Dell Technologies World Hyperconverged Infrastructure Briefing Note Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is quickly spreading across core and edge data center environments. As it moves beyond the point use cases like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hosting, greater solution flexibility is needed because…