StorONE Blog
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…
Backup Storage Needs Better RAID
Even though it is a second copy of data, backup storage needs better RAID than production storage systems. Today, most storage systems are at least front-ended with flash media, and many are all-flash. If a drive fails on a flash-based storage system then, while the rebuild process is not as fast as it should be,…
Veeam Needs a Better Backup Storage Target
To fully realize the benefits of its innovations, Veeam needs a better backup storage target. Veeam Backup and Replication was early to market with change block tracking and instant recovery capabilities. Veeam, version 11, continues to innovate with continuous data protection, advanced ransomware protection and expands instant recovery capabilities to include more workload types. Veeam’s innovations…
How to Maximize Backup and Recovery Operations
To contend with shrinking backup and recovery windows while also reducing backup infrastructure costs, IT professionals must understand how to maximize backup and recovery operations. Maximizing backup and recovery operations requires increasing the efficiency of the backup infrastructure. While most organizations focus on the backup software they must also consider the backup storage target. If…
Q3 Update – The State of StorONE
A message from the CEO, Gal Naor A lot of exciting things have been happening at StorONE since my last update. During 2020 and through the beginning of 2021, we scaled our company exponentially. We built a world-class sales team that has penetrated North America, Europe, and Asia, enlarged our already-strong support team, and increased…
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…
