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The IT world is witnessing a lot of changes for the better, in the cloud market. There is growing support of hybrid cloud environments in a lot of cloud computing, cloud storage, and backup solutions. It is worth noting that why is this change in demand. Here we list the 5 reasons why hybrid environments are being readily supported in cloud solutions.   1.    More control over business-critical data Organizations retain more control over their data with a public and private cloud hybrid environment. Leveraging the security of a private cloud and the portability and scalability of the public cloud becomes the perfect combination. It avoids problems like vendor lock-in. The business-critical data is readily available with low-latency. Hybrid cloud support in storage gateway solutions makes data storage, backup and retrieval are seamless in the cloud environment. 2.    Security of data Hybrid cloud environments provide redundancy on the workloads...

Cloud Archiving solutions can be implemented seamlessly into SMEs. Enterprises of all sizes are migrating to cloud for the same reason. Archive Cloud continues to make sense for backup and disaster recovery solutions. The on-premises resources are often not enough for the provisioning of increasing workloads. It can still be challenging to make cloud work for your SME. SMEs with a cloud strategy mapped out, can leverage the cloud to the hilt.   Why it makes sense to migrate to the cloud For SMEs looking to expand and scale-out, cloud provides a scalable infrastructure. Modern cloud storage environments have proven to be more secure than conventional storage environments. With cloud storage and backup, the data is more secure because cloud services providers have dedicated resources focused on security. Setting up a secure backup and DR infrastructure on their own can be challenging for SMEs. Cloud services reduce it to mere clicks only and you have a scalable and...

Understanding data is very important. Realizing the importance of data is the first mandatory step to go further on with what could be done to take care of the business data in a better, modern and more efficient way. This article will try to make the readers realize why data is important at the first place. The next step would be to see why NAS storage can be a good ad better option for storing data. The first thing first, what is data and is it really important for enterprises to store it and make sure it is stored in a reliable infrastructure which has enough storage space to meet the needs and requirements of the enterprise. With No Customer Data Comes No Responsibility The first case shows the importance of storing data in NAS storage,  for example, is a situation in which a business has not kept records of its customers. A customer comes in to claim a warranty on a product which has been defected or had a fault during the warranty time period. With no data ...

Organizations need to meet data storage and archiving related challenges as they grow. These challenges usually arise from lack of on-premises storage space. Cloud Archiving addresses a lot of these issues with simple plans for long-term data storage with options like scalability, disaster recovery, compliance etc. This article discusses a few data archiving related challenges that organizations face with the context of cloud as a solution. Here are a few challenges: Off-Premises Storage Archive Having on-premises archiving solutions increase the on-premises workloads. This might lead to business disruptions and take up vital resources required for critical business operations. Archiving is a slow process and ‘cold data’ is not treated as critical data and thus resorted to cheaper storage media. The best solution for this type of data is having a cloud repository. Cloud data archiving solutions shift the responsibility of managing, securing and storing archival data from t...

Many companies have successfully saved costs by migrating to cloud for Azure cloud storage and cloud computing services. Organizations save on capital investments with cloud solutions vis-à-vis buying expensive physical storage infrastructure. The question is whether cloud storage solutions actually save you a lot of money or not? In this article, we aim to answer this question – Less maintenance with cloud storage Companies that have physical storage infrastructure in place, have to spend a lot of money on its maintenance regularly. This is a constant worry for organizations dealing with sensitive workloads. With cloud storage solutions organizations can leave their worries behind and rely on the cloud for storage gateway . Companies can focus on their productivity rather than provisioning storage resources as well as maintenance, governance, and security on workloads. Lower electricity costs with cloud storage With cloud storage solutions, organizations sav...

In the data storage world, we refer to scalability as the ability to grow more in the storage capacity. It becomes necessary as the clients of the vendors of storage solution such as Scale Out NAS  grow in their business. This article is about the ways in which scalability can be achieved more easily and effortlessly. There are 8 top practices which make it easier to scale out a storage infrastructure. Let us go through them one by one.   1.        Stay Away from Databases to Make NAS Storage More Easily Scalable It is a key to stay away from the database if you want to make scalability in the NAS storage easier and effective. It means that the database links must not be opened unnecessarily as it effects the scalability swiftness. There must be least number of transactions from the database. 2.        Lighten Up the database in NAS Storage Another way of taking load off the database is using ...