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What’s Wrong with a Cloud First Strategy – Velostrata Briefing Note

Posted on July 5, 2017 by George Crump

The problem with a cloud first strategy is organizations assume clouds are the ultimate data centers, that the organization can’t do it better themselves. The reality is that there are some functions where the cloud is more optimal. Then there…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, Latency, Migration, Object Storage, RAM, SSD, Velostrata, VM, WAN
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How SMBs Can Have Enterprise Class DP without Breaking the Bank? – BackupAssist 10 Briefing Note

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Joseph Ortiz

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) often lack a good backup and recovery strategy, and often do not realize the difference between archive and disaster recovery. They find quality data protection (DP), data retention and disaster recovery difficult to obtain…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, BackupAssist, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DP, dr, Encryption, Hyper-V, LAN, SMB, SQL, Tape, VM, WAN
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On-Premises, in the Cloud, or Both?

Posted on February 9, 2017 by wcurtispreston

If you ever ask someone whether your data should be on-premises, in the cloud, or both, the answer is often different depending on the source. Cloud vendors think you should store all of your data in the cloud. Traditional storage…

Tagged with: Cloud, Elastifile, Hybrid, IaaS, Latency, Scale, WAN
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Faster Backup to the Cloud

Posted on February 1, 2017 by wcurtispreston

When using a cloud backup as a server (BaaS) or disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) the perception is that backup performance is about the same between solutions since they all count on the Internet for transfer and they all…

Tagged with: Baas, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Quorum, WAN
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Making Sure the Storage Infrastructure Keeps Pace

Posted on November 14, 2016 by George Crump

Cisco Briefing Note Pressure on the storage architecture is compounded by the variety of ways that infrastructure is delivered. Options range from traditional fibre channel storage area networks, to IP storage networks, to bladed systems and to hyperconverged infrastructures. Then,…

Tagged with: CISCO, dr, FC, FCIP, Flash, Hyperconverged, Replication, SAN, SDS, WAN
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Remote IT is Moving to the Top of the IT Whiteboard

Posted on July 29, 2016 by George Crump

Riverbed Briefing Note Most of the focus in the enterprise is on the data center, but in reality most of the action is in the remote office/branch office (ROBO). ROBO is the new normal for most organizations. It allows them…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Data Fragmentation, dr, Hyperconverged, Riverbed, ROBO, Virtualization, WAN
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?

Posted on July 26, 2016 by George Crump

Hyperconvergence has seen significant uptake in the last two years, driven by its simplification of IT infrastructure. It reduces the need to manage discrete devices or have specialized training in component-level technology, such as storage area networks (SANs); makes operations…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, WAN
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Hyper-convergence for Distributed Data Centers

Posted on January 29, 2016 by George Crump

Atlantis Computing Briefing Note Hyper-converged architectures (HCA) could be an ideal solution for enterprises looking to equip their distributed data centers. HCA has the potential to consolidate the remote IT needs to a few servers. These distributed data centers typically…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Distributed Data Center, HCA, Hyper-converged Architectures, Replication, WAN
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Empowering the Cloud to Manage Non-Flash Data

Posted on November 2, 2015 by George Crump

An all-flash data center can respond instantly to user requests for information, and it requires less power and less physical floor space. The problem is moving to an all-flash storage infrastructure is expensive. However, it can be an affordable reality…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Flash, infinite io, Latency, Meta-table, Optimization, SSD, WAN
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Is IP Storage DR leaving you Exposed?

Posted on September 16, 2015 by George Crump

As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…