Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor IT staff to be able to work and provide support for other employees in a remote setting, organizations must first ensure they have the proper setup and infrastructure in place. By Robin Gareiss, Nemertes Research Published: 21 Jul 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic caused work-from-home orders around the world, IT leaders and their teams acquired mounting responsibility to ensure millions of
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFor daily work files, databases and mission-critical systems and data, the more frequent the backup, the better. But how often should you back up all your data? By Paul Kirvan With all the backup-focused products available on the market today, there is no excuse not to back up systems and data. The key to making all of this work is
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesCreating and adopting a data backup plan is only the first step. To achieve complete data protection, you also need a backup testing strategy. By John Edwards The importance of scheduling regular data backups to protect against the possibility of a primary storage system failure is well understood. Less widely recognized, however, is the fact that backups can also fail,
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesLearn about sales tactics that server suppliers like Dell EMC, HPE, Lenovo, IBM and Cisco use to try to win back market share from white box suppliers and how those affect you. By James Alan Miller Published: 14 Aug 2020 Organizations negotiating new or renewing existing server deals often come up short, spending a lot more money than they want or
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhen evaluating the cost of a hyper-converged storage system, it’s important to keep the functionality of the system in mind in addition to cost per gigabyte. By Brien Posey It isn’t entirely fair to compare the expense of a SAN or NAS system to that of a hyper-converged system because the three technologies were created for different purposes. In addition,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDAS can be useful for specific applications, but NAS is often the better option because it can provide a greater number of storage architecture options. By Brien Posey When given a choice, is it better to use network-attached storage (NAS) or direct-attached storage (DAS) for your environment? While there is not an answer that holds true in every situation —
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFind out what’s new with NAS technology today, including how it differs from SAN and DAS and where a NAS device might fit into your enterprise’s storage plan. By Brien Posey Published: 24 Jun 2019 Over the last several years, storage hardware has become increasingly sophisticated. With so many new features and capabilities introduced each year, data storage administrators may have
Reading Time-approximately: 11 minutesThe enterprise backup software market consists of traditional vendors and newer technology companies that offer appliances and other cloud-native data protection products. By Chris Evans The market for data backup tools is in transition, as vendors try to capitalize on both the strengths of the public cloud as a backup target and as a platform that needs protection. The diversification
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesComputational storage is an emerging technology, but it isn’t too soon to develop an understanding of how it can be used to address storage latency and performance issues. By Stacey Peterson Published: 23 Jun 2020 Computational storage is all about moving computation closer to storage and reducing the amount of data that must travel between storage and compute. If successful, this emerging
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesFor IT staff to be able to work and provide support for other employees in a remote setting, organizations must first ensure they have the proper setup and infrastructure in place. By Robin Gareiss, Nemertes Research Published: 21 Jul 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic caused work-from-home orders around the world, IT leaders and their teams acquired mounting responsibility to ensure millions of
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