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Category: Hyper-converged

Nutanix Backup Software: Make the Best Choice Between HYCU and Rubrik

April 5, 2018

Organizations of all sizes now look to hyper-converged infrastructure solutions such as the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform to provide them with their next generation of data center IT infrastructure services. As they do, they need software optimized for protecting Nutanix environments. HYCU, Inc., and Rubrik are two early leaders in this space. Each possess distinctive attributes that make one or the other better suited for providing data protection services when these conditions exist in your environment.

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Seven Key Differentiators between the Cohesity DataPlatform and Rubrik Cloud Data Management HCIA Solutions

March 8, 2018

Hyper-converged infrastructure architectures (HCIAs) are foundational for the next generation of data centers. Key to realizing that vision is to implement HCIA solutions for both primary and secondary storage. The Cohesity DataPlatform and Rubrik Cloud Data Management solutions have emerged as the early leaders in this rapidly growing market segment. While these two products share many features in common, seven key points of differentiation between them yet exist as the latest DCIG Pocket Analyst Report reveals.

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Nuancing the Management of HCI Deployments

December 28, 2017

When one examines enterprise data protection and data storage products through the lens of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) designs, one would think each product either supports an HCI architecture or it does not. But as one begins to see when one scrutinizes this topic, the answer is not a simple “Yes” or “No”. Nuancing how well or if a product fits into an HCI design, one first needs to think about the question or even the series of questions that he or she should ask to properly make this assessment.

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2017 Reflects the Tipping Point in IT Infrastructure Design and Protection

December 21, 2017

At the end of the year people naturally reflect on the events of the past year and look forward to the new. I am no different. It is as I reflect on the past year and look ahead on how IT infrastructures within organizations have changed and will change, 2017 has been as transformative as any year in the past decade if not the past 50 years. While that may sound presumptuous, 2017 seems to be the year that reflects the tipping point in how organizations will build out and protect their infrastructures going forward.

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Dell EMC VxRail vs Nutanix NX: Eight Key HCIA Differentiators

November 30, 2017

Hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs) radically simplify the next generation of data center architectures. Combining and/or virtualizing compute, memory, stor­age, networking, and data protection func­tions from a single vendor in a scale-out cluster, these pre-integrated appliances accelerate and simplify infrastructure deploy­ments and management. As such, the stakes are high for Dell EMC and Nutanix who are competing to own this critical piece of data center infrastructure real estate.

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Full Potential of Disk-based Backup Finally Becoming a Reality with Cohesity DataPlatform 4.0

June 23, 2017

Organizations have come to the realization that using disk as a backup storage target does more than simply solve backup problems. It creates entirely new possibilities for recovery. But as they recognize these new opportunities, they also see the need for backup solutions that offer them new options for application availability and recoverability backed by ease of management. The latest DataPlaform 4.0 release from Cohesity moves organizations closer to this ideal.

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An Alternative Approach for Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere Insight into IT Infrastructure Solutions

June 15, 2017

The Internet has eliminated any excuses for not having access to the information that individuals need to make informed buying decisions about products and/or services. However, providing easy, ready insight that quickly and easily compares IT infrastructure solutions… well, let’s just say Google does not address that challenge. Using DCIG and its Competitive Intelligence Suite, organizations get the tools and services they need to first aggregate research on IT infrastructure solutions and then quickly and easily generate reports that compare product features and services.

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Data Visualization, Recovery, and Simplicity of Management Emerging as Differentiating Features on Integrated Backup Appliances

October 7, 2016

Enterprises now demand higher levels of automation, integration, simplicity, and scalability from every component deployed into their IT infrastructure and the integrated backup appliances found in the DCIG’s forthcoming Buyer’s Guide Editions that cover integrated backup appliances are a clear output of those expectations. Intended for organizations that want to protect applications and data and then keep it behind corporate fire walls, these backup appliances come fully equipped from both hardware and software perspectives to do so.

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SaaS Provider Decides to Roll Out Cohesity for Backup and DR; Interview with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, Part 2

September 30, 2016

Evaluating product features, comparing prices, and doing proofing of concepts are important steps in the process of adopting almost any new product. But once one completes those steps, the time arrives to start to roll the product out and implement it. In this second installment of my interview series with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, he shares how his company gained a comfort level with Cohesity for backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how broadly it decided to deploy the product in the primary and secondary data centers.

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