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With the availability of low-cost public cloud storage, now is the perfect time for organisations to reduce the load of unstructured data. All organisations face the challenge of managing low-touch, unstructured data that consumes valuable enterprise storage. For the majority of organisations, this task has been moved to the “back burner” for years. With the availability of low-cost public cloud storage, now is the perfect time for organisations to reduce the load of unstructured data on enterprise storage with a Next Generation Cloud Archive. 

When someone mentions the modern data center what comes to mind first?  Virtual machines (VMs), containers, SSD, flash storage, hyper-convergence?  The answer is, "all of the above."  But have you considered public cloud storage as a critical element of your modern data center strategy in 2017? 

Have you successfully moved your organization’s on premise email service to Office 365?  If so, nicely done!  You have provided your employees with a rich package of communication and collaboration services.  What are your plans to utilize Office 365 OneDrive?  IMHO, OneDrive is one of the most valuable assets of Office 365, second only to Exchange Online.  As part of your Office 365 license, Microsoft provides each user with a whopping 1 TB of storage for online file sharing. 

At Archive360, we know a lot about de-commissioning legacy email archives.  Every day we speak with potential customers about moving legacy email archive data to Microsoft Office 365 or a new email archive.  The underlying question on each customer’s mind is, “should I migrate the archive data now or can I want until some future time?”  At the end of the day it is the responsibility of each customer to make this decision. In this blog I will address the potential security risk of maintaining a legacy email archive.

Undoubtedly you have heard about the new low cost public cloud storage from Amazon, Microsoft and Google.  New terms such as cool, cold, Nearline, coldline, and glacier are just a sample of the new brands being marketed.  To better understand these new brands, I thought it would be helpful to review and compare each brand and make note of its preferred use case.  

Recently released information from Osterman Research, reveals that “the archiving market is growing but the cloud-based segment is growing at a much faster pace”, says Michael Osterman. 

Infrastructure Modernization is a trendy new phrase you will hear from industry experts and read about in IT-related articles.  In simple terms, infrastructure modernization describes a major shift taking place from on premise applications to cloud-based applications.  When properly deployed, new cloud-based applications can dramatically reduce your CAPEX spending in favor of low cost software services.

In recent months I have been struck by the explosion of high performance storage solutions - Nutanix, Pure Storage,  Nimble, Simplivity, and Datrium just to name a few.  These new storage solutions are pushing the performance envelope for the modern data center and virtual server hosts. What I find very interesting is the corresponding impact on actual storage expectations.

For anyone responsible for legal discovery – this upcoming webinar is not to be missed!  Two experts in the field of eDiscovery will be presenting important new information for modern legal discovery.