“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” You’ve probably heard this familiar idiom encouraging tidiness. It also sums up the basic concept of hybrid storage. Enterprises seeking better ways to manage and organize their data, and the associated costs, can find new flexibility in hybrid solutions, which extend on-premises arrays into a hyperscale…

When Phillips Manufacturing began using Adobe Creative Suite, it purchased different licenses for users at various times, acquiring multiple versions of the software. The resulting software environment required a lot of maintenance and created management challenges for the small business, based in Omaha, Neb. Moving to Adobe Creative Cloud, which delivers the applications in the…

No one wants to buy something only to realize afterward that there was a “gotcha” they didn’t expect. As cloud becomes more mainstream, I’m finding myself in more and more discussions with clients that feel they rushed past some preliminary processes and discoveries and are looking to right the ship. As with anything, the carpenter’s…

You’ve read through Part 3 of my backup and recovery series and decided that cloud backups are the right thing to do. What do you do next? First, you will need an Azure subscription that has access to create a Storage account. This can be obtained a couple different ways, the easiest of which is to…

Backing up data to the cloud sounds like a great idea. But, then what? You’ve decided to take the plunge, now you have to start the journey. I talked about other parts of backup and recovery in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. There are several factors to consider when making the switch…

In Are You Taking the Right Approach to Backup and Recovery? Part 1 we covered many of the reasons backups fail, as well as the importance of having a backup strategy that fits your situation. Data storage needs are growing exponentially, which means more data also needs protecting for longer periods of time. Tape storage…