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When to Use Encryption, Replication, or Immutability
Given the importance of an organization’s data, IT must understand when to use encryption, replication, or immutability as part of an overall data resiliency plan. If it is lost because of a disaster, stolen by a rogue employee, or locked up by ransomware, the financial…
How Much Flash is Enough Flash?
While vendors are trying to convince them that they need all-flash, IT professionals are trying to understand how much flash is enough flash. Despite all-flash vendor claims, solid-state drives (SSDs) are not less expensive than hard disk drives (HDDs). In actuality, SSDs are about ten times more expensive than HDDs, so keeping all data on…
What is Auto-Tiering?
Auto-tiering is a feature that some storage solutions have which enables moving data automatically from one type of storage to another. It is typically associated with hybrid storage, which moves data from flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) to hard disk drives (HDD). Auto-tiering technology is not limited to moving data between flash and hard disk drives,…
Why StorONE Eliminated Capacity-Based Pricing
Today we’re announcing an entirely new pricing model, and I am excited to share how this revolutionary pricing model came to be. Thanks to incredible technological advancements in storage hardware, it’s no longer a challenge to find a storage solution with the level of performance and capacity you need. The real challenge is enabling organizations…
HDD over NVMe-oF
HDD over NVMe-oF enables organizations move to NVMe (nonvolatile memory express) over fabric (NVMe-oF) architectures, without struggling with how to leverage hard disk drives (HDD) as part of the transition. Vendors present the NVMe-oF infrastructure as an architecture exclusively for All-Flash Arrays, but organizations know that hard disk drives are 10X less expensive than flash…
Backing up to 18TB Hard Disk Drives
IT professionals looking to reduce backup infrastructure costs are looking into backing up to 18TB hard disk drives. Since introducing 20TB hard disk drives, 18TB drives now own the price per TB advantage versus other hard drive densities, making them a compelling choice to use in backup storage targets. IT has to make sure, however,…
Optimizing Veeam Backup Storage
With innovations like change block tracked backup, a scalable repository, and instant recovery, IT professionals should prioritize optimizing Veeam backup storage. Without proper optimization of the backup architecture, IT can’t realize the full potential of Veeam’s innovations. Veeam Backup Storage Needs Flash The granular data movement capabilities of Veeam’s change block tracking (CBT) backups enable…
How to Reduce DR Storage Costs
IT professionals need to understand how to reduce DR storage costs to afford to implement this critical component of a disaster recovery (DR) strategy. If a cost-effective DR storage solution can’t be found, IT can only offer complete disaster recovery to a few mission-critical applications instead of the entire data center estate. An affordable DR…
The ROI of Fast RAID Rebuilds
Limiting the impact on production performance, improving capacity utilization, and enabling high-density hard disk drives are just a few examples of the ROI of Fast RAID Rebuilds. RAID rebuild time is the time it takes for a storage system to return itself to a protected state after a drive failure. The time window is critical…
Four Tips to Reduce Backup Storage Costs
Here are four tips to reduce backup storage costs, which are escalating out of control for most organizations. Despite the decreasing cost of hardware capacity and performance, vendors continue to make recommendations that hide their legacy software inefficiency, due to dependency on decades-old code, while dramatically increasing the cost. Our tips go against backup vendor…
Four Steps to Maximize Backup Storage ROI
Instead of considering it a digital dumping ground, organizations should take these four steps to maximize backup storage ROI. The return on investment (ROI) of legacy backup storage is dismal. The “return” on a backup storage investment typically comes when IT needs to recover from a disaster or ransomware attack. The organization and IT are…