Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to take the data center by storm, sweeping IT professionals off their feet on the way to storage management bliss. But, most SDS projects are never actually started or abandoned long before they reach their objective. Why? SDS is Broken.

In this live webinar we will discuss the challenges facing legacy SDS solutions and how the next generation of SDS plans to fix it.

Organizations looking to deploy database applications, like Cassandra, Postgres and Couchbase, need persistent storage so if the instance fails data survives. Many storage vendors are jumping on the “containers” bandwagon, but the level of support and understanding of the true need varies.

Join experts from Datera, Portworx, StorageOS, Storage Switzerland, Virtuozzo and WekaIO for a roundtable discussion on “The State of Persistent Storage for Containers.” In this webinar we will discuss why persistent storage for containers are still needed, what are today’s use cases for it and what the future holds.

Register now to join us for the live roundtable event on April 17th at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT

The biggest challenge any enterprise has to get over when migrating workloads to the cloud is SCALE! Large organizations have massive amounts of data; thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of terabytes of data. With this level of scale, migration to the cloud is much more than just copying data from a source site to a destination cloud.

There are four challenges to be considered while performing large scale migrations that the enterprises need to overcome to establish a truly viable cloud strategy.

Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) offer management simplicity and provisioning agility to data centers undergoing digital transformation. When applications need more compute or storage resources, IT can "simply add a node” to an existing HCI cluster. But as the HCI environment scales out, complexity increases and network resources become a significant architectural consideration, often with significant unexpected costs that can blow your HCI budget.

Storage refreshes are something that every data center goes through. However, the most painful are NAS refreshes. It is not just the painful migration of data from the old NAS to the new NAS but also the tedious process of making sure security and access controls are set correctly. Additionally, each refresh gets more difficult, because unstructured data keeps growing. It is time to get off the NAS treadmill and consider the cloud for NAS services.

Cloud for NAS services is now a reality thanks to new hybrid cloud models. Users can benefit from improved performance thanks to local flash performance and organizations benefit from cost effective cloud storage and breaks the endless storage refresh cycle.

When it comes to cyber-risk, the most exposed part of any organization is also the least protected; endpoints. Much of the data on laptops and other devices is unique and not stored on storage owned by the organization, but endpoints are often the first casualties of a cyber-attack. Given the new threat organizations need to provide complete protection, which not only includes protection from device failure but also ransomware attacks, device theft and litigation response.

The challenge for IT is providing this protection without disrupting the user. If the protection solution gets in the way of the user, they will disable it, putting not only their data at risk but leaving the organization open to data loss and cyber-breach.

In this live webinar, learn the four requirements of complete endpoint data protection:

1. Truly Transparent Protection (silent deployment, bandwidth optimization, quick cache)
2. Deployment Flexibility - On-premises, Public Cloud or Private Cloud
3. Total Encryption - Protect data in-flight and at rest
4. Beyond Backup Features - Remote wipe, Legal hold

Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night:

1. How to keep up with application performance demand
2. How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store
3. How to protect that data so that applications can quickly return to service if a server, storage system or entire data center fails

To meet these challenges IT has either used multiple solutions from multiple vendors, creating cost overruns and massive complexity or they have to try to consolidate to a single vendor via hyperconvergence or cloud migration leading to inefficient use of resources and feature shortfalls.

In this live webinar, join Storage Switzerland and Cloudian as we describe three ways cloud storage and on-premises storage can complement each other.

Learn how the new world of multi-cloud storage coupled with scalable on-premises storage can:

Achieve limitless scalability and seamless capacity expansion
Enable unified data management across clouds and on-prem
Consolidate object and file data to a single storage environment
Reduce costs and eliminate complexity

Is your organization ready for any disaster 2018 may throw at it? Organizations not only face new threats they also encounter decreased tolerance for downtime from users. The good news is there are plenty of new solutions that claim to improve an organization’s ability to recover from a disaster. But which one makes the most sense for your organization? And what about your processes? Recovery technology needs to partner with solid DR processes in order for an organization to see its way through the challenges ahead.

5 Requirements for True Cloud Based VMware Backup & Disaster Recovery
Join Storage Switzerland and Druva for a live webinar on the critical requirements of a true cloud solution and what the advantages of these solutions are:

1. No hardware, no software, or deployment hassle
2. Improved Business Agility
3. Dynamic DR and Workload Mobility
4. Simplified Management
5. Significantly Lower TCO

Join Storage Switzerland and Micro Focus for an interactive live webinar where we will discuss the key disruptors in the market that could impact your data protection plan and what you need to consider to avoid them.

Understand the key 5 trends and their implications on your data center:
●The Shift to Hybrid IT
●Ransomware and other Cyber Threats
●The Proliferation of Mission Critical Applications
●Cloud Storage and Cloud Applications
●The Rise of Remote Office Computing (ROBO)

Over the last few years, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) deployments have been on the increase. HCI combines server, storage and networking into a single system building block, however, it introduces many new complexities into your environment. Join Storage Switzerland and Datrium as we discuss the three key questions that enterprises need to ask when considering hyper-converged architectures.

Join Storage Switzerland and Tegile Systems for our live webinar, “How to Design Primary Storage for GDPR,” to learn how design primary storage architectures in the GDPR era. The data center now has three realities to deal with:

1. Meeting the applications demand for more and more performance
2. Meeting the immediate disaster recovery demands of GDPR
3. Meeting the long-term data retention demands of GDPR

In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland’s founder and lead analyst George Crump and Vexata’s VP of Products and Solutions Rick Walsworth as they explain how all-flash systems have fallen short and how IT can realize the full potential of flash-based storage without the compromises. Learn 5 areas where all-flash arrays miss the database performance mark.

Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudian in this live webinar as we discuss the advantages of object storage over NAS, the problems with converting from NAS to object storage and how to overcome those problems.

Public, private and hybrid cloud are nothing new, but protecting sensitive data stored on these servers is still of the utmost concern. The NSA is no exception.

It recently became publicized that the contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to the NSA (National Security Agency) were compromised. The virtual disk containing the sensitive data came from an Army Intelligence project and was left on a public AWS (Amazon Web Services) storage server, not password-protected.

This is one of at least 5 other leaks of NSA-related data in recent years. Not to mention the significant number of breaches and hacks we’ve experienced lately, including Yahoo!, Equifax, WannaCry, Petya, and more.

The culprit in this case? Unprotected storage buckets. They have played a part in multiple other recent exposures, and concern is on the rise. When it comes to storing data on public cloud servers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace and more, what are the key responsibilities of Storage Architects and Engineers, CIOs and CTOs to avoid these types data leaks?

Tune in with Chris Vickery, Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard and the one who discovered the leak, along with George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, David Linthicum, Cloud Computing Visionary, Author & Speaker, Charles Goldberg, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Thales e-Security, and Mark Carlson, Co-Chair, SNIA Technical Council & Cloud Storage Initiative, for a live panel discussion on this ever-important topics.