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IT infrastructure transformation: Backbone of the digital revolution
This article is part of the Storage issue of July 2017, Vol. 16, No. 5
One of the prevailing trends in IT is digital transformation and the IT infrastructure transformation that accompanies it. Sounds relatively straightforward, right? Well, becoming a more digital-enabled business is about a lot more than simply building a mobile app. Digital transformation enables you to better engage customers, run your core business more efficiently and enter new markets through new processes and products as well as data analytics. The final implementation and outcome will vary based on your industry and business, of course, but the central idea remains the same: Leveraging data becomes a central element to your business's core strategy. And while you may offload services to Office 365 or Salesforce, the workloads that remain on premises will likely be more strategic, such as for introducing digital products. So IT changes from a department that implements best practices for general-purpose applications to one that defines or enables new custom practices and workflows that serve to differentiate your digital ...
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Chief concerns when buying cloud storage include cost and capacity
Enterprises look for the best deal from the vendor with the best reputation when turning to the cloud to tame growing data volumes for archiving, backup and more.
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Object-level storage poised to replace NAS in the enterprise
Many vendors offer highly scalable object storage-based products with file interfaces, making the technology more accessible than ever as an alternative to NAS.
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Wanna laugh? Data protection techniques give ransomware the boot
Done right, data protection such as cloud-based disaster recovery is the best countermeasure organizations have against insidious ransomware attacks.
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ECX 2.6 includes intelligent data management
Catalogic Software's approach to snapshot creation and management delivers pragmatic features to DevOps and more with the release of ECX 2.6.
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Object storage use cases coming to a data service near you
Object storage, unlike traditional file and block storage, is well-suited to manage vast amounts of unstructured data.