Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWhy choose between public cloud and private systems when you can have both? With hybrid cloud, enterprises can address workload requirements, business demands and budgetary needs. By Stephen J. Bigelow Organizations are migrating workloads to the public cloud, as well as implementing private clouds in-house. As these forms of cloud computing take hold, large and small businesses are focused on
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhen evaluating archiving services, you must determine what you need to archive, requirements around that data and how to make the most cost-effective selection. By Paul Kirvan Long-term data archiving can and should be an important piece of an organization’s data storage strategy and policy. If it’s too costly to manage a brick-and-mortar data archive, consider using one or more
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteA virtual tape library (VTL) is a storage system consisting of hard disk drives (HDDs) that looks and acts like a physical tape library. By Sarah Wilson VTLs are typically used for backup and data archiving purposes. The array of disks is presented to the backup software as tape. Data is written sequentially, just as it would be as if it were being written to rotating tape, but can be written and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHybrid IT is an approach to enterprise computing in which an organization provides and manages some information technology (IT) resources in-house but uses cloud-based services for others. By Katie Terrell Hanna A hybrid approach allows an enterprise to maintain a centralized approach to IT governance while exploiting the benefits of cloud computing. Hybrid IT vs. hybrid cloud The term hybrid IT
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCloud NAS (network attached storage) is remote storage that is accessed over the internet as if it is local. By Paul Kirvan The storage is usually hosted by a third-party service provider, who charges the customer a fee based on capacity and bandwidth. Many enterprises use a similar chargeback method for their off-site storage. Cloud NAS is often used for backup and
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEffective data storage management is more important than ever, as security and regulatory compliance have become even more challenging and complex over time. By Paul Crocetti Enterprise data volumes continue to grow exponentially. So how can organizations effectively store it all? That’s where data storage management comes in. Effective management is key to ensuring organizations use storage resources effectively, and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHardware-assisted virtualization is the use of a computer’s physical components to support the software that creates and manages virtual machines (VMs). Virtualization is an idea that traces its roots back to legacy mainframe system designs of the 1960s. By Stephen J. Bigelow Early mainframes used the Control Program/Conversational Monitor System operating system and were adept at provisioning the mainframe’s available computing resources into isolated environments
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWhen it comes to small business and home lab IT decisions, sometimes thinking outside the box helps to create cost-effective and high-performance solutions. By StorageReview Enterprise Lab Crucial just released the new 4TB capacity of the long-standing MX500 SATA SSD, which may just be a perfect price and performance mix for a low-cost all-flash storage setup. We installed eight of these SSDs
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesECC (and parity) memory modules have a chip count divisible by three or five. … Non-ECC (also called non-parity) modules do not have this error-detecting feature. Any chip count not divisible by three or five indicates a non-parity memory module. By Tekmart Enterprise Support By far and large, RAM today comes in the form of DRAM with DDR, DDR2, DDR3,
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesVeeam Backup & Replication is a software product developed by Veeam Software to back up, restore and replicate data on virtual machines (VMs). It was first released in 2008 and is part of the Veeam Availability Suite. By Erin Sullivan Veeam was among the first vendors to develop backup software tailored to VMs. Before Veeam, backup applications failed to recognize the difference between
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