Data governance requires understanding your data, how it's created and used, and who is accessing it. Given the large volumes of data handled by almost every organization, using tools to help […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure continues to be a growth technology, finding a place in more and more data centers. How do you know if it belongs in yours? 

When creating backups just means copying data to another location and filing it away for safekeeping, that means creating backups is just an undesirable expense that adds no business value. But […]

When it comes time to refresh and modernize your data center infrastructure, it's time to consider hyperconverged infrastructure. No longer just the choice for limited purposes like virtual […]

There's a big difference between cloud backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), and it's important to be clear on the distinction before you commit to either.

Managed services can run your cloud, supervise your backups, and generally ensure that your IT runs more smoothly. With specialized expertise, managed services providers ensure a level of service […]

Deciding to turn over your infrastructure to a cloud provider is a tough decision. There are good reasons to want to keep control over vital business infrastructure. With hyperconverged […]

These two expressions mean almost the same thing: "in the nick of time" and "just in time." But you don't want to solve your data center problems in the nick of time. That implies it was only good […]

Company data today is widely distributed. Companies run applications on traditional bare metal servers, on virtual machines in their data center, on virtual machines in a private cloud, and on […]

Choosing any cloud service requires understanding what you want and need from the cloud and whether the cloud provider can satisfy those wants and needs. Unlike Platform as a Service (PaaS), which […]