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Hybrid storage in 2018: still the Achilles heel of hybrid cloud strategies?
Hybrid has become better understood and less risky, but is still far from simple
Data storage in Azure: Everything you need to know
Microsoft Azure has many data storage options, so how do you choose what to use? This guide explains the options
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Best practices for migrating data to the cloud
Moving petabytes of production data is a trick best done with mirrors. Follow these steps to minimize risk and cost and maximize flexibility
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Mingis on Tech: The lowdown on Cisco Live
Network World's Brandon Butler checks in from Las Vegas, where this week's Cisco Live is under way. The big story: Cisco's efforts to move from hardware to software, security and "intent-based networking."
The high cost and risk of On-Premise vs. Cloud
This article discusses the costs and risks of maintaining your applications and infrastructure on premise vs. moving to the Cloud.
How to avoid downtime and disruption when moving data
Increasingly organizations need to move data between data centers and/or the cloud, but the risk of downtime during transition is a sticking point.
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Top 5 Benefits of a Hyperscale Data Center
The growing importance of data analytics and cloud - the result of big data coming from ubiquitously networked end-user devices and IoE alike - has added to the value and growth of data centers. Furthermore, the increasing need around
DevOps in the evolving digital enterprise
Digital enterprises operate with radically different datanomics than conventional physical businesses. Here, digital information is the business.
Why Microsoft's Cosmos DB represents the future of cloud databases
Here are four reasons why there's more to Microsoft's new database as a service than minimal management and greater flexibility
Datacenters decline as users turn to rented servers
Consolidation and the move to the cloud are behind the mega change in the industry
Lessons learned from the recent AWS S3 outage
Cross-region replication and backups can help applications survive regional cloud service outages.
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How a Major Australian University Brought Backup to the Cloud
In this webinar, learn how the University of Wollongong leveraged NetApp AltaVault and Amazon S3 to move to secure cloud backup, speed up data restore operations, and simplify DR testing, while reducing costs.
Google Drive will let users stream files from the cloud
Google Drive users will be able to see all the files they have stored in the company’s cloud service on their desktop without downloading them, thanks to a new feature the company announced Thursday
5 lessons from Amazon’s S3 cloud blunder -- and how to prepare for the next one
This week's service disruption to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service should be a wakeup call to make sure your cloud-based applications are ready for the next time the cloud hiccups
Build your own sharing system, with help from Google engineers
From the minds at Google, Upspin is an open source project for building file-sharing infrastructure, but it's a long way from mass consumption
3 enterprise-strength file sync services to check out
Popular file-sync services are great for individuals, but can lack controls for access, encryption and other services that enterprises require
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Deep Dive how-to: Office 365 document sharing
Office 2016, OneDrive, and Office 365 together offer powerful document collaboration capabilities across Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and the web -- but only if you set them up and manage them properly. This how-to guide walks you
Amazon's Elastic Block Storage stretches control to individual volumes
With Elastic Volumes, EBS now lets you resize volumes and change their performance types on the fly
Apple's iCloud saved deleted browser records, security company finds
It’s unclear if Apple knew that its iCloud service was storing the deleted internet browsing histories
Datanomics 101: The economics of data in a digital enterprise
The transformation of businesses to digital enterprises has created radical changes in Datanomics, the economics of data over its life cycle.
Google Go-powered object storage server offers open source AWS alternative
Minio provides resilient object storage and is compatible with existing AWS S3 tools
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