Insights from Jeremy Brovage who is one of our Storage Solutions Architects within SIS’ Infrastructure Solutions practice. Jeremy has more than 24 years’ experience with storage, backup and archive technologies, including 20 years as Spectrum Protect / Tivoli Storage Manager SME. There are many back-up software applications on the market today. Some are specialized for a […]
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Software-Defined Storage for Digital Transformation
The case for SDS: the digital transformation imperative. IDC shows the top benefits, workloads, challenges and vendor considerations – Download PDF. SDS frees your most valuable assets – your team and data to easily adapt to new workloads and enable to the cloud initiatives. SDS is also crucial for deploying multi-cloud on-demand consumption of public/private […]
How safe is your backup data?
If you saw this on your way to work, what would flash through your mind? It’s a picture of an offsite storage transport van being pulled by a tow truck because it has broken down. It asks the interesting question of how safe your data really is if it’s in a truck being driven around […]
What’s the difference between Data Backup and Archive?
There have been some high profile situations in the media over the years that have been centered on the topic of data retention and data retention policies. The 6-month data retention policy of the IRS is one that comes to mind. Since it seems to be an important topic, we thought we’d take a look […]
Understanding Object Storage
Object Storage – What it is, and why consider the opportunity for your future infrastructure Imagine you are building the next great mobile app that is so fun and addicting that it’s going to cause people to run into each other because they’re constantly looking down at their phone. Suddenly an A-List celebrity tweets about […]
Real Life Cloud Decisions – Discussion with a Client
Recently, I found myself working with a customer interested in leveraging a hybrid cloud model. The CIO was aggressively looking to move part of their workload off into the cloud; specifically archive workload. The customer has around 120 TB of usable capacity, about 25 TB of that would be considered archive and is a candidate […]
How cost effective are your data backups?
This post was written by Jeremy Brovage who is a Backup, Recovery and Archiving Architect in SIS’ Infrastructure Brand Solutions practice. Data protection is often a source of weariness for IT managers today. Day-to-day, there’s very little benefit to backups. It’s like taking out the trash, or paying your insurance premiums. You have to do […]
What is the best storage protocol for your organization?
This post was written by Michael Vannette who is a Technical Design Authority / Solutions Architect for SIS. All too often, I am asked “Which Storage Protocol is best?” I get this inquiry from all types – Clients, Account Managers, Application Developers, etc. No matter the source of the question, I typically respond “That depends on […]
The economics of cloud based DR solutions
Disaster Recovery Cloud Economics This blog will help answer some questions associated with the economics of cloud based disaster recovery solutions. The first step is to determine the value of your systems and the impact a significant outage would have to your business. According to a recent study by Ponemon Institute 1, the average cost […]
Cloud Options for Disaster Recovery Continued
In Part I, we started with an overview of disaster recovery cloud delivery options and some of the more popular use cases. In Part II, we will provide more depth on available disaster recovery cloud options and determining the right solution. A good place to start is to highlight what events are most likely to […]