Posts Tagged ‘Data Fabric’
The Full Story on Ransomware
With the threat of ransomware always looming, you need to have a plan. Thankfully, we’ve got you covered. This toolkit of articles will help you get informed and get ready to deal with ransomware. The problem with being down Application downtime – from ransomware or not – affects many parts of the business – this…
Read More3 Critical Business Risks of Application Downtime
Business continuity is of the utmost importance for long-term success. The more streamlined business operations are, the more efficient employees will be at their jobs, and the more revenue can be spread around. A well-oiled machine can make efficiency a competitive advantage, but maintaining a consistent pace is easier said than done – especially given…
Read MoreReady 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 to see a light at…
Read MoreMulti-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 also to contain costs. Multi-site…
Read MoreHow 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 to focus on doing what…
Read MoreAre 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 tips for you – and…
Read MoreKubernetes: 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 containerized apps? Read on and…
Read MoreTick-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 company, why would this apply…
Read MoreData 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 software-defined solution that ensures data…
Read MoreHow 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 in and talk about how…
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