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Using Object Storage to Reverse Cloud Storage
A top priority for IT professionals in 2016 is deciding on a cloud storage strategy. Of the available options, most consider using the public cloud for secondary storage purposes, like backup and...
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What is Object Storage and what can you use it for?
For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road...
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Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary...
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Can you do it better? A Balanced Approach to Cloud Storage
For most organizations, public cloud storage is a great place to start but not where they should end. While there is an initial operational advantage to the public cloud, the long-term cost of renting...
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The Advantages of Storage Sprawl
Fighting storage sprawl may sound like the right thing to do but for some data centers storage sprawl is a reality that they can’t stop. There are too many moving parts. Instead of fighting it, it may...
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Reverse your Cloud Strategy
Organizations of all sizes are trying to develop a cloud strategy, both in terms of applications and storage. Most of these organizations are finding that the promised cost savings of the cloud are not...
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Flash + SMR = Storage Density and Performance
Cloud and traditional data centers face two competing challenges. The first is meeting the ever-increasing demand for performance. Flash, in its various forms, can meet these requirements. On the other...
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Why Low Latency Matters
Enterprise Applications and Dynamic Business Workloads Demand Faster and Faster Response Times Applications are driving the enterprise, whether it is a relatively simple application used by millions of...
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Hitachi’s HSP Hyper-Converged Appliance makes Big Data Analytics fit the...
Big Data Analytics uses distributed computing architectures, on platforms like Hadoop, to run large processing jobs on even larger datasets. Since data being processed in a Hadoop environment usually...
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Addressing VDI’s Fork in The Road
Organizations embark on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects to drive down end-user operational costs and to enhance infrastructure security. These projects often evaluate well. During “test...
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Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment,...
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Solving the Ransomware Problem – Backup or Cloud Storage?
Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with...
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DevOps for IT Pros: The Key to Addressing Bi-Modal IT
DevOps can deliver a strong return on investment (ROI) for those environments choosing to invest in it. Environments adopting a DevOps mentality move from merely supporting operations to truly enabling...
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Heterogeneous Storage Analytics Difficult to Gather
Knowledge is power. But knowledge in a heterogeneous storage environment can be difficult to come by. Modern data centers often have a mix of software-defined storage, traditional proprietary storage,...
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Build your DRaaS
DRaaS is the future of disaster recovery, but leveraging cloud backup may be an expensive way to implement it. Cloud replication, because it is operating on the working set, keeps cloud storage costs...
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Challenges of Using The Cloud for Primary Data and How to Fix Them
Storing primary data in the cloud flies in the face of logic. Data is typically stored where the user would create it and there is one reason for that: physics. There was a time, of course, when...
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
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...
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Strategies for Managing the Performance Impacts of Data Efficiency in...
The dramatic growth of data continues. To help solve the problems associated with that growth, vendors are coming up with new technologies that will not only maximize storage capacity but also improve...
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Copy Data Management is Ready for Prime Time
The data center’s biggest challenge is not dealing with the capacity growth of the primary data set, it is dealing with the growth of the secondary data set. The secondary data set is copies of data it...
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Do you Always Need to Backup?
Typically backup is the copying of data from one type of storage system (e.g. primary storage) into another type of storage system (e.g. backup system) for the purposes of recovery in case the first...
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