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Striking a Balance with HPC Environments
Users are increasingly prioritizing High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications, which in turn intensifies the demand for storage solutions that are not only high in performance but also scalable and efficient, tailor-made to support these sophisticated HPC scenarios. Industry forecasts by Emergen Research project that investment in…
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…
Is The Cloud the Best Place for Backup Data?
Even though it initially looked like nirvana, IT professionals are starting to ask, “is the cloud the best place for backup data?” While using the cloud for backup storage does enable the organization to enjoy low upfront costs, it creates many challenges, especially for the recovery process. In this week’s live webinar, “Beat the High…
How to Eliminate Backup Storage Silos
Instead of helping IT understand how they can eliminate backup storage silos, vendors are proposing additional sub-silos of storage within the backup infrastructure. The primary reason is to try to cobble together a ransomware recovery strategy. Most backup vendors are now proposing no less than four storage systems within the backup infrastructure: Backup storage with…
What is 360° Ransomware Protection?
IT professionals need to look for 360° Ransomware Protection of their backup infrastructure. Bad actors know that the backup infrastructure is critical in recovering from their ransomware attacks and avoiding paying the ransom. As a result, they target backup data and metadata to make recovery impossible or slow the process down. As we will discuss…
