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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

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

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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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

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!]

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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

Network World

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

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

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.