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New @georgeacrump Blog: What’s the Role of Object Storage in Backup?

Object storage systems are typically software-based solutions that run on commodity servers, which are clustered to create a single pool of storage. As a result, object storage solutions tend to be very cost-effective from a-price-per-GB perspective. These systems also have excellent data protection and preservation capabilities. But are they ideal for backup storage?

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New @georgeacrump Blog: How to Improve your Recovery Confidence

Most organizations have very low confidence in their ability to consistently recover data, whether from a minor outage or a major disaster. They’ve been through too many instances where data could not be recovered, took too long to be recovered, or even when recovery worked it felt like it was more a function of sheer luck than it was expected. Improving recovery confidence is a critical step in…

Upcoming Webinar: 3 Steps to Stop Data Protection Sprawl

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Most enterprises have little confidence in their ability to recover data in the event of a data center failure, storage failure, ransomware attack, or natural disaster. There is too much data to protect and user expectations of rapid recovery are higher than ever. To stem the tide, IT is forced to piecemeal a strategy together using multiple legacy platforms and solutions. As…

#FlashMemorySummit Note: NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems

E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note

When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only pick two of these attributes. Today users have to sift through choices that include server-side flash, scale out and scale up all-flash arrays and hyperconverged…