Data storage strategy
Regardless of your organizations’ primary storage, big data, cloud storage, backup or disaster recovery needs, you’ll need a strategy for buying, managing, provisioning and maintaining data storage. Plotting that strategy requires knowledge of trends and technologies, such as solid-state storage, cloud storage, and converged and hyper-converged infrastructure.
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Data storage strategy News
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October 18, 2018
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Oct'18
Veritas appliances help Flex NetBackup muscle
More than two years after escaping Symantec, Veritas fights off data protection newcomers by packaging NetBackup with an expanding appliance portfolio.
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August 07, 2018
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Aug'18
CEO: Actifio funding round to help focus on customer growth
Actifio today completed its second $100 million funding round in four years, as it moves closer to a possible IPO and seeks profitability and growth. The Actifio funding round increases the ...
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July 24, 2018
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Jul'18
HPE InfoSight automates customer support on 3PAR
HPE increases the ability of its InfoSight cloud-based predictive analytics to help manage 3PAR storage arrays; HPE picked up InfoSight in its 2017 acquisition of Nimble.
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May 14, 2018
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May'18
Updated IBM storage products focus on cost savings and cloud
IBM storage enhancements focus on data deduplication expansion, cloud-based Storage Insights, VM-based Spectrum NAS and Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.
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Unlock storage savings with Windows Server deduplication
Windows Server comes with a data deduplication feature to reduce the organization's storage crunch, but it's important to plan around some potential drawbacks. Continue Reading
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enterprise storage
Enterprise storage is a centralized repository for business information that provides common data management, protection and data sharing functions through connections to computer systems. Continue Reading
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4 NVMe storage array options to consider
Here's what you need to know to pick the NVMe array that provides your organization with the performance improvement it needs and also fits its budget. Continue Reading
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Automated data management is a crucial part of IT's future
Automating data management will play an important role in helping us cope with the coming zettabyte apocalypse, a time when the amount of data generated will overwhelm storage resources. Continue Reading
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Successful IT resiliency strategy based on high availability and DR
Stringent yet realistic RTOs and RPOs are crucial to resiliency plans aiming to minimize interruptions to businesses operations should disaster or disruptions strike IT resources. Continue Reading
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Why more enterprises choose to park information on cloud platforms
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Backup management process: Which data sets not to back up
Your backup strategy does not necessarily need to include backing up everything. Believe it or not, there are elements that do not require constant backup. Continue Reading
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Storage administrator skills and jobs in the age of convergence
Simpler data centers can complicate the lives of IT pros with specialized skills, such as storage admins. But they can still thrive by specializing further or becoming generalists. Continue Reading
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Predictive storage analytics, AI deliver smarter storage
Predictive analytics, AI and machine learning are coming together to create more intelligent data storage. Find out how your organization could benefit. Continue Reading
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Disaster avoidance requirements ensure business continuity
Include disaster recovery and avoidance requirements as design goals when creating storage and production environments to ensure business continuity during weather events. Continue Reading
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The future of flash storage: Is NVMe right for your enterprise?
Cracks in the SAS and SATA protocols started to appear with the rise of SSDs and the exponential performance improvements they delivered over HDD technology. This led to the development of the nonvolatile memory express protocol to exploit flash's ... Continue Reading
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The best enterprise storage systems and services of 2017
For 16 years, Storage magazine and SearchStorage have recognized the best enterprise storage systems with our annual Products of the Year awards. For this year's competition, vendors submitted new and upgraded products from the past year ... Continue Reading