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Data Management as a Service – Igneous Briefing Note

Posted on September 25, 2019 by George Crump

Data management is a project that many IT professionals and application owners feel they are too busy or don’t have enough expertise to undertake. Most data management tasks are big projects that take a lot of planning and continuous care…

Tagged with: Archive, as-a-Service, Backup, CapEx, Cloud, Data management, Igneous, ROI, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, WAN
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StorMagic Encryption Key Manager and KVM Support Briefing Note

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting the Encryption and Hypervisor Taxes for the Edge and Small Data Centers Edge data centers are quickly becoming important hubs where mission-critical data is processed. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) poses an attractive architecture to serve these environments, but there are…

Tagged with: Encryption, HCI, Hyperconvergence, SAN, StorMagic, Virtual Instruments, WAN
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What to Watch Out For when Moving NAS to the Cloud

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Storage managers are pressured to deliver new levels of nimbleness and operational and cost efficiency, while at the same time serve booming pools of unstructured data to highly distributed enterprises. Traditional network-attached storage (NAS) arrays were designed to serve smaller…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, Nasuni, Unstructured data, WAN
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Protecting Distributed File Data

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Where previously unstructured data comprised a minority of the business’s data and was not strategic to the organization, that scale has tipped dramatically. Unstructured data may account for two-thirds or more of the data that businesses are collecting, storing, and…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, dr, GDPR, Hybrid, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, Unstructured data, WAN
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Solving The Challenge with Endpoint Data Strategies

Posted on December 12, 2018 by George Crump

Applying data center data management best practices to endpoints is particularly challenging. As discussed in our prior post, there is the physical challenge that most organizations have hundreds if not thousands of endpoints and those endpoints are mobile. Managing and…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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Endpoints – From Laptop Backup to Total Data Management

Posted on December 10, 2018 by George Crump

Today, even basic and consistent backups of endpoints are a rarity. Given all the threats that an organization faces, and the uniqueness and value of the data found on user devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones, endpoint protection is critical…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, GDPR, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Malware, Ransomware, WAN
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Backup Software Needs to Provide Freedom of Choice – Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.5

Posted on August 16, 2018 by George Crump

Backup software used to be a conduit through which data moved from primary storage to some form of protected storage. Today though, backup software vendors are increasingly forcing customers down a pre-selected path. Vendors are now bundling their solutions with…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, WAN
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SlideShare: Faster, Smarter, Simpler – The New Requirements in Storage Networking

Posted on August 3, 2018 by George Crump

IT professionals need a faster, smarter and simpler storage architecture. Organizations drive this need by deploying more diverse and demanding applications and services. Data is the very lifeblood of an increasing number of organizations. The consumers of this data need…

Tagged with: CISCO, FC-NMVe, LAN, Machine Learning, networking, Virtualization, WAN
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True WAN Optimization is not Deduplication – Bridgeworks Briefing Note

Posted on July 31, 2018 by George Crump

The four walls of the data center no longer confine users, applications, and data. Organizations are multi-site, and users want to work from anywhere. Making “work from anywhere” a reality still requires data and data still has gravity. Data has…

Tagged with: Bridgeworks, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Latency, Redundancy, WAN
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Next Generation Networks Are Faster

Posted on July 31, 2018 by George Crump

The modern data center is very demanding of its network infrastructure. Next-generation networks need to be more than fast. They also need to be smarter and provide deep insight. Speed seems like an obvious requirement, but there is more to…