Bringing the Speed of Flash to Your Software-Defined Storage Infrastructure

To deliver a distributed file sharing environment, IT organizations often have to deploy multiple, discrete solutions. DataCore vFilO now allows IT organizations to deploy a single, scalable, hybrid file and object storage solution, with built-in data management. Learn how vFilO can enable you to consolidate your existing file storage silos into one globally managed environment, and enable complete control over whether data is on high performance, on-premises storage or archived to the public cloud.

Across all sectors, ransomware incidents increased by 118 percent during the first quarter of 2019, yet less than half of companies today do not consider the prevention of ransomware a high priority. A ransomware attack can be devastating to a business, especially for organizations that rely on an always-on, 100% uptime model to keep their customers, users, and partners happy.

Software-defined storage (SDS) is increasingly being leveraged by public and private organizations to easily integrate advanced data protection strategies into their existing environments and build a redundant infrastructure that is always available, no matter the issue. As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, high availability and disaster recovery solutions that can mirror your data transparently, automatically, and in real time are imperative to preventing attacks that can take your organization offline and out of commission.

In this webcast join Alan Kerr, Sr. Solutions Architect at Stable Path to learn how SDS can help your organization safeguard your storage environment against ransomware attacks with multilayered protection for business continuity and high availability to significantly reduce your RPO and RTO times.

The recent pace of innovation in enterprise computing has created enormous pressure on the underlying data storage infrastructure, which was designed for an era that predated today’s agile, cloud-enabled IT environment.

To keep up with the pace of innovation, IT teams today must invest in new storage technologies that enable the necessary speed, performance and agility. But which storage solution is the right one?

Making this decision is challenging … and the stakes are higher than ever. Regardless of the unique requirements in your environment, there is one critical success factor that must be included in your decision process – a financial case that demonstrates a clear return on your investment over the next 3-5 years.

When done correctly, a strong financial case ensures your storage project is considered a success by the business, and even more, can be the key unlocking funds to invest in new IT initiatives, drive innovation, and advance IT’s role in supporting the broader organization’s growth and innovation initiatives.

In this webcast, you’ll learn
•The key elements of 3-Year TCO Analysis
•How to drill down on storage operating costs and assess your current environment
•The strategic difference between and importance of both CAPEX and OPEX
•How to compare the TCO of different storage solutions
•How to deliver a bullet-proof financial case for your next big storage decision

Presenter Bio: Tom Grave has been working in the enterprise technology market for over 20 years, primarily in the fields of data center infrastructure, storage, and data protection. As President of WinFirst Marketing, he helps IT customers make complex buying decisions, with a focus on new technology evaluation and TCO analyses. Prior to founding WinFirst Marketing, Tom served in various leadership roles for enterprise storage and cloud technology vendors.

Every master plan is created to fulfill specific demands. But what if you did not consider one or two unpredictable factors? This webinar will provide insights to help you maintain business continuity by adapting to those inevitable, yet unforeseen turn of events.

- Find out where your organization ranks within the Vulnerability Index
- How to protect your BC/DR plans and avoid common storage pitfalls
- Discover the new standard of BC/DR planning and stay future-ready

Hear the Storage Success Story of RSD, Refrigeration Supplies Distributor and DataCore partner, StablePath.

Meet Refrigeration Supplies Distributor, the largest independently owned refrigeration parts and HVAC equipment wholesaler in the western United States. RSD recently celebrated 112 years in business.

Meet DataCore partner, StablePath. This California based DataCore reseller has nearly two decades of experience in the IT industry. They have built their solid reputation leveraging best-of-breed technology and services.

With the help of StablePath, RSD strives to set the mark for customer service. Having a world-class IT infrastructure is a critical element in achieving 100% customer satisfaction!

​​The RSD Challenge. Before implementing DataCore software-defined storage, RSD was running production data, including its business-critical ERP system on EMC storage and Veeam backups on tape. However, having a dual-controller single-disk array configuration would cause IT to run into problems, slowness and experience failures continually. They needed a faster solution.

The StablePath Solution for RSD. A large part of the RSD infrastructure upgrade involved virtualizing the ERP system among others, and a key consideration was the performance needed to power this business-critical asset. The ERP provider ran initial tests with DataCore software-defined storage for RSD, and the results were shocking—not only did it meet the existing performance needs, but it also sped up the system significantly. Plus, their Veeam backups ran 3X faster than before. As a result, RSD experienced:

Increased Performance, Zero Downtime
Faster Backups and Comprehensive Disaster Recovery

If you have any questions, reach out to us at Info@DataCore.com or +1.954.377.6000.

The short half-life of data, quickly decaying from hot to warm to cold, governs how much you should spend on it throughout its stages.

Humans are poorly equipped to track the rapid temperature changes, much less capable of reacting to it. Consequently, largely dormant data consumes precious space on expensive storage, blowing up disk capacity and spiraling up costs.

In this webinar you’ll become acquainted with:
•Machine learning (ML) techniques that sense data temperature variations in real-time
•Artificial intelligence (AI) methods used to dynamically migrate data accordingly, between primary, secondary and cloud storage from different suppliers
•Relative distribution of storage tiers necessary for optimum savings

Join us to hear the story of City of Carmel and Mirazon. City of Carmel is one of the fastest growing cities in Indiana. Carmel was voted #1 in American's Best Places to Live by Money magazine. CNBC voted Indianapolis/Carmel ”Best Cities to Relocate to in America”. Over the last two decades the city has almost tripled its population and this growth has forced their IT infrastructure to expand rapidly.

Thanks for Mirazon’s recommendations they found the perfect solution that helped them modernize their infrastructure to provide 24/7 data access for Fire and Police department’s critical systems. For nearly a decade, City of Carmel has experienced Zero storage-related downtime. Even through maintenance windows, their VM’s have achieved 100% uptime.

The best part is, they have done with budget-friendly backend disks and allowed Software-defined storage to do all the heavy lifting. They have enjoyed Enterprise level active/active HA functionalities across 2 different buildings, running a VMware stretch cluster with HPE Servers connected via 10Gb and HP MSA backend enclosures.

Learn how City of Carmel has been able to stay running without downtime for almost 10 years and have saved $75,000 by extending their hardware life expectancy thanks to their secret sauce.

In this webcast you will discover how City of Carmel:
• Has experienced 100% uptime for nearly 10 years
• Extended their storage life expectancy by 80% and saved $75k
• Replaced every storage component without doing a forklift and replace

Hyperconvergence is now adopted by an ever-growing number of enterprises because of its simplicity, but others don’t like it because of its lack of efficiency, or because they do not find it flexible enough to answer to all of their workload needs.

Yet, it is not always possible to get everything you want. However, technology and products are quickly maturing, and now enterprises can ask for much more.

Attend this free GigaOm webinar featuring experts in enterprise data storage and IT infrastructure, including GigaOm Analyst, Enrico Signoretti and DataCore’s Sr. Product Manager, Manish Chacko, discussing innovative solutions for infrastructure strategies.

Attendees will learn innovative infrastructure strategies and explore solutions from both technical and business perspectives, including:

The good, the bad and the ugly of hyper-convergence
- Trade-offs of hyper-convergence
- Evolution of hyper-convergence and benefits for the end users
- New options that allow a smoother migration path to hyper-convergence
- The next major features to expect from an HCI platform

Join GigaOm and DataCore for this free expert webinar!

Data is a strategic weapon of any institution or business. But, if you’re not leveraging it, then it can be a massive competitive disadvantage in the industry!

So how can you, and your IT organization, gain this advantage? A transformation must occur.

Maximizing IT infrastructure flexibility is paramount to keep pace in this newly formed digital age. But typically, any major change in your IT infrastructure, besides costs, requires risky, time consuming and disruptive data migrations. So how to overcome this obstacle?

Join our brief webinar and Q&A at the end to hear more about the background, drivers and enablers to achieve IT modernization and flexibility without the pain of migrations. In other words: to disrupt without disruption. Experts from ESG and DataCore will jointly look at the challenges associated with the need of IT modernization and how it can be accomplished – within budget and without any disruption for your operations.

Learn more about the hold-backs and how to overcome them, because there is nothing more constant than change. Join us to discover:

• The need for change and transformations in IT
• Seamless introduction of new technologies
• Seamless migration options (e.g. to hyperconvergence)

Join us to hear the story of 1st Basis Consulting and MNJ Technologies. 1st Basis Consulting offers technical managed services and IT consulting in support of SAP and VM solutions. As a company providing hosting services for customers worldwide, 1st Basis Consulting needed a solution to maximize the performance of their SAP HANA test/dev environment and reduce their storage costs.

With the help of MNJ technologies and DataCore Software, 1st Basis Consulting found a high-performance solution that helped them reduce storage delays by a massive 75% and cost savings of 50% during their hardware refresh while also decreasing their hardware footprint by 42% and increasing their VM density.

Learn how 1st Basis Consulting transformed their SAP HANA environment from a traditional-SAN storage design to a modernized 2-server Hybrid-Converged solution with HA, plus the ability to present virtualized storage to external VMware hosts.

In this webcast you will discover how 1st Basis Consulting:
· Massively cut their SAP HANA databases’ load up times from 20 minutes to just 5 minutes
· Saved $100,000 on storage costs by choosing a Hybrid-converged design
· Consolidated from 12 VMware hosts to 7 hosts while increasing their VM growth

The “new normal” is an expectation of 100% uptime of applications and long-term retention of data. Coupled with massively growing data sets, IT organizations are struggling to meet these expectations.

As an IT professional, you are looking for innovative data protection and disaster recovery solutions to overcome these hurdles, but where do you start? You simply don’t have time to research and compare the latest software and hardware solutions available for enterprise data protection.

Leave the hard work to us and join us on the Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and DRaaS Megacast! This single event will help you learn about the latest and most innovative data protection and disaster recovery solutions. In this educational event, you’ll learn what makes each solution unique as well as how they improve your company’s reliability, availability, and efficiency. You’ll learn how each vendor makes data protection easy and how they make disaster recovery fast, reliable, and efficient.

Register now to join us for this fast-paced, fun, and prize-filled event!

Join us to hear the story of Architectural Nexus, Inc. and Universal Systems Incorporated (USI). ArchNexus provides customized architectural, landscape and interior design services. As a company with over 100 power user engineers and architects, ArchNexus needed a storage solution to meet the company’s high demand for performance. With the help of USI and DataCore Software, ArchNexus found a smart and affordable storage solution.

In this webcast you will discover:
- A business problem & how it was solved
- The business impact
- The on-time and on-budget solution
- The ROI achieved
- How the customer would change the process or outcome

Are you searching for a smart storage solution that is right for your business? Please join us!

Did you know that unplanned downtime at a healthcare organization can cost an average of $7,900 per minute? This is a fact reported by the Ponemon Institute.

Join our webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A to learn:

- How to keep patient and systems data accessible, even during a natural or unexpected disaster
- How to keep mission-critical applications running 100% of the time, even if there is a hardware failure
- How to protect the privacy and security of patient information against cyber attacks
- How to easily migrate and consolidate data due to mergers and acquisitions
- How to accelerate high I/O workloads without spending your budget on expensive All-Flash storage appliances

Are you forced to replace your hardware? Are you thinking about different deployment models for your IT infrastructure, e.g. hyperconvergence?

Well, any change to your IT infrastructure is a major challenge, and typically requires complex data migrations, resulting in service downtime, overtime and more money to spend - but are the results worth it?

Before you start your next project, think about an alternative approach to rip-and replace, like software-defined storage. You may ask yourself, why should that help me? And there are many good reasons, but an essential one are the unrivaled chained migration options.

If you're wondering what these benefits can mean to you, just join our brief webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A so you can see how simple it is to bring software-defined storage into your IT environment and leverage chained migration. Among others, you'll be able to discover:
• How to integrate software-defined storage into your environment
• How to migrate data between totally different types of storage
• How to change towards hyperconverged during regular business operations

IT organizations require a data protection solution that can combat against the ever looming threat of malware or ransomware, and data corruption, which can have a significant effect on day to day operations. When that data protection capability is included in their storage solution, it allows IT organizations to reduce their overall costs, while maximizing their ability to protect all data they are responsible for.

This is why DataCore Software created Continuous Data Protection (CDP), or the “undo button” for your data. In this webinar we explain and show how DataCore Software’s CDP feature can deliver one-second restore granularity and provides the best Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of any data protection solution.

NVMe and all-flash systems can solve any performance, floor space and energy problems. At least this is the marketing message many vendors and analysts spread today – but actually, sounds too good to be true, right?

Like always in real life, there is no clear black or white, but some circumstances you should be aware of – especially if you intend to leverage these technologies.
You may ask yourself: Do I need to rip and replace my existing storage? What is the best way to integrate both? What benefits do I receive?

Well, just join our brief webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A so you can get the most out of these technologies, make your storage great again and discover:
• How to integrate Flash over NVMe in real life
• How to benefit of some Flash/NVMe for your entire applications

Shifting weather patterns across the globe force us to re-evaluate data protection practices in locations we once thought immune from hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters.

Offsite data replication combined with advanced site recovery methods should top your list.

In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services that continuously replicate data, containers and virtual machine images over long distances
• Differences between secondary sites you own or rent vs. virtual destinations in public Clouds
• Techniques that help you test and fine tune recovery measures without disrupting production workloads
• Transferring responsibilities to the remote site
• Rapid restoration of normal operations at the primary facilities when conditions permit

Attend live for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!*

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Business continuity, especially across data centers in nearby locations often depends on complicated scripts, manual intervention and numerous checklists. Those error-prone processes are exponentially more difficult when the data storage equipment differs between sites.

Such difficulties force many organizations to settle for partial disaster recovery measures, conceding data loss and hours of downtime during occasional facility outages.

In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services capable of continuously mirroring data in
real-time between unlike storage devices.
• Non-disruptive failover between stretched cluster requiring zero touch.
• Rapid restoration of normal conditions when the facilities come back up.

Attend live for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!*

*Gift card will be sent within 10 days of the webinar date. Void where prohibited.

If you’re working in a technology role in the healthcare field, whether you’re in a hospital or clinic, working in a company producing the latest breakthrough treatment or working in an organization helping patients on the financial side of their health, you know that you have unique technology needs that many other companies may not. You also know that you need technology that enables rather than hinders you, and you may be wondering how some leading-edge healthcare organizations are making this happen right now.

ActualTech Media is partnering with some of today’s leading enterprise IT vendors to bring you a very special EcoCast focused exclusively on healthcare IT. Audience members that have an affiliation with any area of healthcare, medical, life sciences, or similar areas will be treated to a very special healthcare-specific presentation from data center technology provider DataCore.

Join this webinar to learn how today’s leading healthcare organizations are using software-defined storage to tackle the top challenges in Healthcare IT by delivering uninterrupted data access, massive architectural scale-out, and game-changing application performance.