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ROBO Management
Includes WAFS, Wide Area Data Services or WDS, Replication.
Remote Offices have been the bane of IT for decades. Issues surrounding performance, collaboration, bandwidth management and latency abound. In this area of research Taneja Group analysts define a variety of new technologies and their pros and cons, the issues they solve, the players that are active and how they differentiate themselves from each other. Taneja Group analysts also provide guidance to IT as it struggles to evaluate new technologies and implement these new technologies in a coherent manner.
Enterprise File Collaboration Market Landscape
Collaboration is a huge concept, even narrowing it down to enterprise file collaboration (EFC) is still a big undertaking. Many vendors are using “collaboration” in their marketing materials yet they mean many different things by it, ranging from simple business interaction to sophisticated groupware to data sharing and syncing on a wide scale. The result is a good deal of market confusion.
Frankly, vendors selling file collaboration into the enterprise cannot afford massive customer confusion because selling file collaboration into the enterprise is already an uphill battle. First, customers – business end-users – are resistant to changing their Dropbox and Dropbox-like file share applications. As far as the users are concerned their sharing is working just fine between their own devices and small teams.
IT is very concerned about this level of consumer-level file sharing and if they are not, they should be. But IT faces a battle when it attempts to wean thousands of end-users off of Dropbox on the users’ personal devices. There must be a business advantage and clear usability for users who are required to adopt a corporate file sharing application on their own device.
IT must also have good reasons to deploy corporate file sharing using the cloud. From their perspective the Dropboxes of the world are fueling the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon. They need to replace consumer-level file collaboration applications with an enterprise scale application and its robust management console. However, while IT may be anxious about BYOD and insecure file sharing it is not usually the most driving need on their full agenda. They need to understand how an EFC solution can solve a very large problem, and why they need to take advantage of the solution now.
What is the solution? Enterprise file collaboration (EFC) with: 1) high scalability, 2) security, 3) control, 4) usability, and 5) compliance. In this landscape report we will discuss these five factors and the main customer drivers for this level of enterprise file collaboration.
Finally, we will discuss the leading vendors that offer enterprise file collaboration products and see how they stack up against our definition.
Microsoft Buys StorSimple - Deepen integration between Microsoft Azure and Enterprise Data Center
Microsoft officially acquired StorSimple on November 15, 2012. StorSimple was a relative startup that had been shipping products for about 18 months. Why did Microsoft buy StorSimple? What is the strategy behind the purchase? Where will Microsoft take this newly acquired technology? These are many of the questions we are being asked at present. Here is our view....
CTERA: Simplifying ROBO Storage Using Hybrid Cloud/Local Architecture
This paper examines CTERA’s storage and data protection solution for large-scale remote and branch offices (ROBOs), and demonstrates its fundamental advantages over alternative approaches, including a real-world customer example and comparative cost assessment.
The Move to the Cloud - A Taneja Group eBook
eBook on Cloud Storage -- 6 Critical Questions and Answers You Need to Know
Cloud storage can be a beast to wrangle. Deciding which applications to move into the cloud, understanding how to select and deal with a cloud storage provider, deciding on cloud storage solutions – none of these are easy. Is it worth it?
It's worth it, but it’s vital that you do into it with your eyes wide open. There are many, many questions you need to ask before entrusting your data to a cloud storage provider. Questions like:
#1. What is your system uptime?
#2. What data availability service levels do you support?
#3. How easy is it to move my data to another provider?
#4. What data protection service levels do you provide?
#5. What is your level of performance?
#6. What applications can I best host in the cloud?
*This eBook is free with registration.
How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise:Advanced Replication Powered by WAN Optimization
In this profile we examine the business and technology trends that complicate and increase the cost of enterprise-wide DR planning, and we summarize the proven benefits of disk-to-disk backup and replication technologies. We then dive deeper, and explore the critical role WAN optimization plays in unlocking DR efficiencies when deployed along with these data protection solutions. WAN optimization enables the enterprise to do more with its current network capacity—more frequent and faster backups and replication, plus faster recovery—while leveraging new capacity quickly and efficiently. We conclude that a WAN optimization solution, when combined with advanced replication technologies, delivers remarkable flexibility, performance, and cost benefits for multi-datacenter enterprise disaster recovery.
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Creating PII Compliant Solutions With ROBOBAK
Government regulations require proper protection of personally identifiable information (PII) for many industries, including financial services, government, education, and healthcare, and are mandatory in those vertical markets. PII is defined as any private data specific to a customer, client, or patient that is retained by an organization in account records, and can include information such as social security numbers, credit card or bank account numbers, academic transcripts, and healthcare records. In this Solution Profile, we’ll take identify best practices for PII compliance that span industries, and show how ROBOBAK, a backup and restore solution targeted for use in remote office and branch office (ROBO) environments, can be used to meet those requirements.