Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster
Network World
APRIL 23, 2021
European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one.
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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty
Network World
MARCH 17, 2025
Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.
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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Moving applications between data center, edge, and cloud environments is no simple task. Finally, within a distributed hybrid cloud model, efficient container and VM management demands a specialized platform: one that can automate and orchestrate processes while ensuring compliance and data sovereignty.
Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds
Network World
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. Download our editors’ PDF hybrid cloud data protection buyer’s guide today!]
5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform
Network World
MARCH 17, 2025
Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. HiveIO Hive Fabric HiveIO is a Linux Kernel-based VM (KVM) that features an intelligent message bus, pool orchestration, user profile management, and shared storage.
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Pure Storage adds AI features for security and performance
Network World
JUNE 26, 2024
Pure Storage is upping its AI game with a pair of announcements, including a new storage-as-a-service offering that’s designed for AI workloads and new AI-driven security features to detect and prevent ransomware. The company bills its new Evergreen//One product as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service offering.
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Radically Reduce Downtime and Data Loss with SaaS-based Disaster Recovery
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Planned downtime, for IT migrations and moving to the cloud, also consumes valuable organizational time. They also know that without a reliable disaster recovery (DR) solution to protect business-critical applications, all their modernization efforts could be rendered moot in a matter of seconds.
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery : spf13.com
SPF13
OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery. There are a variety of reasons businesses either do not have a disaster recovery plan or their current plan is substandard. This is problematic when the decision-makers have bought into one or more of the common myths surrounding disaster recovery.
11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.
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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
VMwares virtualization suite before the Broadcom acquisition included not only the vSphere cloud-based server virtualization platform, but also administration tools and several other options, including software-defined storage, disaster recovery, and network security.
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How network automation can speed deployments and improve security
Network World
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
“Every school or college had their own IT, and in most cases they were completely under-resourced – a one-person shop having to do phones, apps, email, desktop, servers, storage, disaster recovery, all of that,” said Brian Pietrewicz, deputy CIO at University of New Mexico.
Disaster Recovery & Backup Are Part of Cloud Storage, Not Stand-alone Apps
Data Center Knowledge
MARCH 19, 2014
The cloud holds much more potential than a cheap dumping ground for backup and archive data, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni. It’s time to give up on incrementally improving a broken backup system, and instead move forward toward a new model for data protection. Industry Perspectives'
Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI
Network World
AUGUST 30, 2024
A year ago, VMware’s big annual VMware Explore conference was all about generative AI – specifically, about companies running AI applications within a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This year, attendees heard more about VMware’s partnership with Nvidia to deliver generative AI models and tools – but in the context of a private cloud.
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Cloud Roundup: VMware, IBM, Oracle
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 18, 2014
VMware launches vCloud Hybrid service for disaster recovery, The Hartford selects IBM to build private cloud infrastructure, and Oracle adds database backup and storage cloud services to its portfolio of Platform and Infrastructure services. Cloud Computing IBM Oracle VMware'
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Nirvanix Collapse Provides Stress Test for Cloud Migration
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
15, cloud storage provider Nirvanix will shut its doors, having run dry of funding. That leaves two weeks in which all the many petabytes of data stored on the Nirvanix cloud must find a new home. Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery Downtime'
IBM Brings Government Cloud to California State
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 25, 2014
CalCloud provides California state government entities and departments with secure cloud resources, including compute, storage, network and disaster recovery services Read More. Cloud Computing Government IBM Sacramento'
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Enterprise Storage Solution Provider of Choice: The Case Studies
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to significantly improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat rose to the challenge.
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Modernizing Your Mid-Range Storage? Here are 5 Keys to Success
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Yet while data-driven modernization is a top priority , achieving it requires confronting a host of data storage challenges that slow you down: management complexity and silos, specialized tools, constant firefighting, complex procurement, and flat or declining IT budgets. Go faster with a cloud experience everywhere.
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NxtGen: India’s cloud powerhouse
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 6, 2024
When asked what enabled NxtGen to become the largest cloud services and solutions provider in India, A S Rajgopal, CEO, founder, and managing director, points to the pillars that guide the company’s operations: speed, security, simplicity, support, scalability, and sovereignty.
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How VMware aims to make multi-cloud seamless
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 23, 2022
Multi-cloud provides increased velocity, scale, and choice by enabling enterprises to create and deploy new services across clouds. But multi-cloud environments will quickly lose their allure if their operations are not seamless.
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What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service?
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
The latest CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan that can help organizations resume critical IT operations in case of emergencies. What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? The vendor also must ensure regular replica updates according to the client's recovery point objectives.
Flexential: Perfecting a platform methodology for enterprises’ multi-cloud future
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
James Ochoa, vice president of cloud solutions at Flexential, views the company’s extensive portfolio not simply as a collection of innovative, bespoke, and proven technologies, but more fundamentally as the solution it uses to help more than 3,000 enterprises in more than 20 industries solve their business challenges.
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New Tools Are Simplifying Backup and Replication
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 14, 2013
Featured backup Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery replication Storage Virtualization' Fortunately, increased hardware performance and more bandwidth availability make creating such an environment a clear possibility. Bill Kleyman looks at the tools and strategies you''ll need to make it work.
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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles.
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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Storage has emerged in 2022 as a strategic asset that the C-suite, not just the CIO, can no longer overlook. Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. What should you do?
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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2023
After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. It can also improve business continuity and disaster recovery and help avoid vendor lock-in.
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Why Your Healthcare Organization Should Consider HPE GreenLake for EHR
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Furthermore, supporting Epic Honor Roll requirements, purchasing cycles, and disaster recovery places heavy demands on staff time, and recruiting, training, and retaining IT professionals can prove difficult. But as with many industries, the global pandemic served as a cloud accelerant.
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Lintasarta Cloudeka is Helping Enterprises in Indonesia Realize the Full Potential of the Cloud
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Throughout the country Lintasarta Cloudeka is known as the cloud provider from and for Indonesia,” says Ginandjar. “We We have a really strong understanding of the needs of the industries we serve and provide end-to-end cloud services to a diverse customer base that includes large global enterprises and small- and medium-sized companies.
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Hybrid Cloud Storage: The Bridge Between Sites
Tech Republic Cloud
AUGUST 11, 2022
Often used to supplement internal storage systems with scalable public cloud storage, or to streamline data backup processes and disaster recovery (DR) planning, hybrid cloud storage’s use cases are many. The post Hybrid Cloud Storage: The Bridge Between Sites appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 20, 2024
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that includes infrastructure and applications outside of centralized, dedicated, and cloud datacenters located as close as necessary to where data is generated and consumed. Cloud services for edge. Companies pay a monthly fee. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.
Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Swift recovery is paramount to minimizing damage. Why a disaster recovery plan may not be good enough Many organizations have disaster recovery plans and assume the concept of disaster recovery and cyber recovery are the same: a system or location goes down, you shift operations, complete recovery efforts, and return to normal.
Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2022
In a 2021 survey , 95% of respondents agreed that a hybrid cloud is critical for success, and 86% plan to invest more in hybrid multicloud. Challenge 1: Mindset The cloud isn’t as much a place to go as it is a way of operating. Many of the tools, skillsets, and processes used on-premises must evolve to those used in the cloud.
Preparing for the Worst: IT Disaster Recovery Best Practices
SecureWorld News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Being prepared for a bad situation that might never happen is better than experiencing a disaster that catches you off-guard. Read this post to learn more about disaster recovery and discover the best practices that you should apply to improve the protection of your data and IT environment. What is disaster recovery?
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deserves Another Look. Here’s Why.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 2, 2022
A little over a decade ago, HCI redefined what data storage solutions could be. Even though early platforms did little more than consolidate compute, storage, and networking components in a single chassis, the resulting hyperconverged node was revolutionary. cost savings with flexible, independent scaling of compute and storage.
Expedient: The well-known hybrid cloud leader has a recommendation for CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2024
Today, the company – a Pinnacle Partner in the Broadcom Advantage Program and former VMware Americas Cloud Partner of the Year – wants to help enterprises thrive in what President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Rosenson sees as the next chapter in hybrid cloud. “We Rosenson stresses that Expedient is more than an MSP.
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Splunk Boosts Visibility For VMware 3.0 Environments
Data Center Knowledge
AUGUST 23, 2013
NaviSite launches a Director IaaS platform support VMware vCloud Director, FalconStor enhances its storage solutions for VMware environments, and HotLink launches a VMware disaster recovery offering to Amazon Web Services. Amazon Cloud Computing Virtualization VMware falconstor hotlink navisite splunk'
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Broadcom Pinnacle Partners: Guiding enterprises throughout their cloud journeys
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 2, 2024
Together, they create an infrastructure leader uniquely qualified to guide enterprises through every facet of their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud journeys. But with a constantly expanding portfolio of 90 cloud solutions, our stack was increasingly complex.
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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 12, 2022
We recently caught up with Mike Fuhrman, Chief Product and Information Officer at Flexential, to learn how the company is helping customers gain the connectivity and cloud solutions they need and what it means to be VMware Cloud Verified. All of the company’s cloud offerings are based on VMware technology.
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3 Ways to Simplify Data Management
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 3, 2022
Can your data move freely from edge to cloud ? The game changer – a cloud operational experience. In trying to overcome complexity, IT leaders now look to the cloud model – so much so that 91% of IT leaders in that ESG study agree that mature cloud operations on-premises is the single most important step to eliminate complexity. .
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CloudOps: A framework for optimizing your cloud operations
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 24, 2022
A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. CloudOps: A multilayered framework for cloud operations.
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Cognitio’s Cloud Transition Framework Captures Lessons Learned From Real-World Cloud Implementations
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
The move toward cloud computing as a technology design style continues to accelerate. We all know the expected benefits: reduction in CAPEX, better utilization of resources, improved system availability, better disaster recovery, and flexibility of compute and storage resources. How do we secure the cloud appropriately?
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Huawei talks tech at MWC 2022: building an intelligent services portfolio
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2022
It supplies solutions, products, services and tools that span the full range of enterprise ICT, including Huawei’s own cloud platform, networking, data centers, storage and enterprise services. The first was the significantly enhanced disaster recovery service for enterprises. “As
Bin Dasmal’s CIO on sharpening an agile mindset to strengthen business outcomes
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The upgrade has allowed the business to optimize the total cost of ownership by approximately 25% to 30%, while deploying serves with the highest standards of security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shifting the cost model from CAPEX to OPEX. Plus, the Veeam software was configured to back up cloud-based servers too.
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The Race to Data-first Modernization Is On
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 13, 2022
From edge to cloud to core, businesses are producing data in vast quantities, at an unprecedented pace. According to the results of a recent survey of 750 IT professionals from analyst firm ESG, 93% of IT decision-makers see storage and data management complexity impeding digital transformation. Or are they? Well, some are.
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