Developing a Standby Storage Strategy
Given the criticality of primary storage and the affordability of alternative solutions, IT must consider developing a standby storage strategy. Standby Storage is a storage solution that can, in the event of a primary storage system failure, (either because of a hardware issue or firmware…
How to Backup an All-Flash Array
They can dramatically change how you deploy production applications and virtual machines (VM), but understanding how to backup an All-Flash Array (AFA), is potentially more critical. AFAs are not, technically, harder to protect than a hybrid or hard-disk (HDD) based storage system but the expectations on the speed of the backup and recovery process is…
Journey to Storage Consolidation
America’s Test Kitchen’s (ATK) journey to storage consolidation started with an archive project. ATK’s mission is to make curious cooks confident cooks; which they do through a series of online content that includes videos and images. The rich media library is a critical asset for ATK, and they need to retain it indefinitely. To accomplish…
Practical Storage Consolidation
Practical storage consolidation is a way to deal with the daunting size and scope of the typical consolidation project. It takes a step-by-step approach instead of an all-at-once overhaul. It allows you to address the most immediate pressing storage concerns you have in the environment and gain confidence in the solution. In this way, it…
Backup Storage Needs High Availability
Although it holds the second copy of data, backup storage needs high availability, similar to primary storage. When something goes wrong with your primary storage array, you need to recover that data quickly, 100% of the time. IT needs to meet ever-shrinking backup windows, and an outage to your backup storage can create a cascading…
Backup Storage Targets Need to Change
Backup software companies like Veeam, Rubrik, and HYCU have been hard at work adding new capabilities, and backup storage targets need to change to keep pace. Features like deduplication, continuous backup, managed replication, and instant recovery are now built-in to most software applications. The common practice of backup storage vendors charging a premium for similar…
Key Requirements for Affordable DR
Many vendors claim to have data protection and disaster recovery (DR) features, specifically snapshot and replication capabilities, but do these features meet the key requirements for affordable disaster recovery (DR)? A DR plan must strike a practical balance between rapid recovery from any disaster and the realities of the IT budget. Key Requirements an Affordable…
The Enterprise Impact of the Flash Shortage
In our recent webinar, “Overcoming the Flash Shortage of 2021”, StorONE and Seagate detailed the enterprise impact of the flash shortage. Experts expect the scarcity of flash media to last well into 2022. However, IT professionals can overcome the flash shortage by using a next generation hybrid storage system combined with a different storage strategy….
Maximizing Primary Storage Data Protection
By maximizing primary storage data protection, organizations can better protect themselves from ransomware, accidental data loss, and site-wide disasters. Most primary storage systems have all the essential features to protect an organization’s data. The problem is these vendors, to get to market quickly, tie themselves to a legacy storage IO stack, which can’t fully exploit…
Use Next-Generation Hybrid to Overcome the Flash Shortage
While most experts expect it to prolong well into 2022, IT professionals can use next-generation hybrid to overcome the flash shortage the industry is experiencing. The perfect storm of COVID shutdowns and increased demand are causing the flash shortage. As a result, the logic of selecting an all-flash array instead of a hybrid array is…
How to Calculate Storage TCO
Understanding how to calculate storage TCO is critical, especially since the subject seems to have disappeared from most of our competitors’ websites. Storage TCO is the total cost to purchase, operate, protect, and keep current, your storage infrastructure. Since most of our competitors score poorly in each of these categories, it is no wonder they…