Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Enterprises aren't the only organizations that can benefit from big data. Medium and large businesses can too. The challenge is, can these businesses build the same big data infrastructure enterprises do? The short answer is, they can't. But the secret is, they don’t have to.

In this webinar, join Storage Switzerland and Avere Systems as they show you how to shift large workload compute processing into the cloud in just 10 minutes. This quick onramp to unlimited cores can level the playing field and improve your ability to compete with the global giants.

In this live webinar, Storage Switzerland and Virtual Instruments will give you a 5 step, independent process for moving through a storage refresh project.

In this webinar you will learn about the five key steps to success:

1. Storage Technology Evaluation: (flash, hybrid, OpenStack, Ceph, etc)
2. Product Evaluation: Determine which storage system meets your requirements
3. Storage Configuration Optimization: Determine optimal storage configuration
4. Production Management: Determine how to assure performance and rapidly resolve the inevitable problems
5. Change Impact Analysis: Determine how future changes will impact performance

Transitioning from Data Migration to Data Management

In this webinar join, Storage Switzerland and Primary Data for a roundtable discussion on how automated data management can help you overcome the budgetary and technological challenges with a migration strategy and how you can implement data flow to eliminate the problem once and for all.

While hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) offer rapid startup they lock organizations into a specific set of vendor compute, storage, networking and hypervisor configurations. And, as the infrastructure scales it becomes increasingly difficult to deliver workload specific levels of performance and data protection.

Ransomware is a new threat, and new threats require new strategies. Within the first 15 minutes this webinar will provide you key strategies for surviving a ransomware attack. During the event Storage Switzerland and Commvault will cover the three P's of Ransomware survival: Prevention, Preparation and Practice. Join data protection experts with decades of experience protecting organization's digital assets.

Is your flash system up to the challenge? Attend this webinar and learn how you can optimize your SQL Server performance. Hear how the pros pinpoint performance bottlenecks and leverage the latest advancements in storage technology to decrease access latency and IO wait times. By the end of the webinar you’ll have the tools and information you need to recommend the best approach for your SQL Server environment.

In this video Storage Switzerland and NTP Software discuss the surprising role that data archival can play in minimizing the exposure from ransomware attacks like WannaCry and data thiefs like WikiLeaks.

Users expectations of IT's ability to return mission critical applications to production are higher than ever. These expectations are leading IT to abandon many of their backup and recovery solutions to try new, unproven solutions that may or may not solve the problem. In either case, the organization wasted its investment in the first solution for the unknown potential of a new solution. User expectations are certain to get higher, so this cycle will likely repeat itself. IT needs a new strategy, one that will meet the current expectations of users and pave the way for true organizational resilience.

End-to-end encryption is important and offers a base level of security but if the EFSS vendor owns your keys then you may not have the protection you might think. In this StorageShort, Storage Switzerland and Ctera discuss the importance of key ownership as part of the encryption process.

4 steps for more affordable, effective disaster recovery. Disaster Recovery is an expensive proposition. But since the consequences of not being prepared for a disaster are so severe, it is an expense that organizations make. But that's not to say organizations are not always looking for way to do DR better, faster and for less money. In this live webinar join Storage Switzerland and ClearSky to learn how organizations can lower the cost of DR preparation and execution.

The first step to the cloud, for most organizations, is backup. This use case leverages cloud storage but totally ignores something that cloud providers are better at delivering – cloud compute. Join Storage Switzerland and Zerto as we discuss the best next step for hybrid cloud. Leveraging the cloud to create a next generation disaster recovery site.

Have you made the jump to all-flash storage? Are you planning to? If so this webinar is for you. We will look at what's next after (or before) the jump to all-flash. An all-flash array brings many benefits to the environment, but it also either exposes weaknesses or raises expectations in IT's ability to consistently deliver performance to applications, to protect the data those applications create and to ensure the organization can rapidly recover from almost any disaster.

When most organizations consider an archiving project their primary goal is to save money. Basically they are looking to move data off of expensive storage valued at a couple dollars per GB to secondary storage valued at pennies a GB. They are counting on the 80/20 rule to save them money, where 80 percent of what an organization stores has not been accessed in the last nine months. Moving that 80% to less expensive storage will save them money. What most organizations that successfully implement a data management strategy actually find that the per GB cost savings is the most trivial part of the equation. In this ChalkTalk video, Storage Switzerland and NTP Software discuss the other more important reasons to archive data.

Join Storage Switzerland, Red Hat and leaders from the Docker industry for a round-table discussion on developing the right storage strategies to successfully deploy and manage Docker both in your environment and in the cloud. There are a group of vendors trying to make the storage architectures that support Docker easier to use, more enterprise class and able to provide data persistence. Storage Switzerland will moderate a roundtable discussion on Storage, Docker and how to build enterprise class environments that support legacy applications. We will cover areas like who should be using Docker, can legacy data centers participate, what are the storage challenges with a containerized environment and what are the issues with moving containers from on-premises to the cloud?

Organizations managing data have a competitive advantage over organizations that don't. But most organizations don't have the time or tools available to implement a successful data management strategy. It’s not for a lack of trying. Many organizations fight a losing battle when trying to implement a data management solution. In this webinar Storage Switzerland and Dternity/StrongBox Data Solutions will discuss the three reasons why organizations are losing the data management battle, and provide guidance on how to start winning the battle.

The Always-on Enterprise is a data center that faced with even the most severe disaster can return applications to full working order in a matter of minutes. Service level objectives (SLOs) are the means by which IT and the organization communicate how the protection and recovery process will work. The challenge is the status quo SLO won't meet the new "always-on" expectation. You need to protect data more frequently, recover more rapidly and provide better performance in the recovered state.

It is time for IT to re-think SLOs and the solutions to meet them. Join experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and NetApp as they review the NEW SLO requirements and how you can meet those requirements while controlling costs.

Today’s IT professional is stuck in the middle of a file sharing tug of war. One side has the end users who want the improved productivity that mobility and collaboration promises. The other side consists of corporate governance that wants to eliminate data breaches and improve data protection. In this live webinar, join experts from Storage Switzerland, CTERA and IBM as we discuss the "5 Must-Haves" so IT can make both sides of the issue happy while at the same time making its job easier.

There are a lot of options available to IT professionals looking to improve their ability to recover from a disaster, one is copy data management, very popular in the press. The other is DR Ready Primary Storage, something that Storage Switzerland has been writing about over the last few months. At first the differences seem subtle but selecting the right method is critical to recovering from a disaster quickly and cost effectively. Listen to this live podcast to determine which is best for your organization.