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Ready or Not, Here Comes the GDPR
With GDPR legislation coming into effect in just 10 days, companies all over the world are preparing their data and company policies to comply with some of the strictest data privacy and protection regulation to come out in recent years. But with such a daunting task, it can be hard…
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Multi-Site, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Faceted: How Vicinity Controls Placement of Data
Recently we discussed how Vicinity creates a data fabric to enable data to move between storage systems, locations, and clouds. In this blog, we’ll offer more specifics on how Vicinity controls the placement of data and uses multiple sites and multiple clouds – not only for protection and availability, but…
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How Data Fabrics Give the Savvy IT Service Provider a Leg Up
Have you heard the term data fabric? For IT service providers, data fabrics not only solve many serious IT issues but they are a new revenue source—and one that will make your customers loyal to you because they will immediately see the advantages. For your customers, data fabrics allows them…
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Are You Ready for Ransomware? Some Common-Sense Suggestions
Do you know the signs, exploits, or attacks that could bring down your organization’s systems? Most IT professionals feel confident in being able to recognize an attack, but your users may not know all the signs – or the ways to avoid them! So here are a few common sense…
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Kubernetes: What It Is, and Why Use ioFabric
Kubernetes can be a helpful tool for automating the use of containers – especially if you are doing rapid development – but the storage behind it can be unreliable at best. How do you mitigate the risks of stateless container storage and still get the best performance for your top…
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Tick-Tock, the GDPR Is Coming
You’ve already been warned: the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is coming into effect May 25. In this blog, our CEO Steven Lamb, will answer a few questions from ioFABRIC customers about what’s happening, why, and what you need to do. Q: I work for a North American…
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Data Fabrics Have Storage Covered
Nearly 50 years ago, a trade association claimed that cotton was “the fabric of our lives”. But there’s a new fabric that is poised to become even more critical to our everyday lives – the data fabric. Data fabrics weave together disparate compute and storage resources into a single, virtualized…
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How Vicinity Manages Replication and Erasure Coding for Protection and Performance
In a previous blog we delved into how Vicinity scales capacity and performance. There is one other aspect to performance that is often overlooked, and it’s related to data protection policies: replication and erasure coding. The way Vicinity handles replication may be different than you’re used to. So let’s settle…
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Dive into the Pool: Capacity and Performance Scaling in Vicinity
ioFABRIC Vicinity users know that they configure performance, capacity, protection and cost objectives for applications which drives automation across the storage infrastructure – an order of magnitude simpler and faster than individually configuring performance media and capacity on each storage silo. We will take a closer look at how and…
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