In this Storage Field Day Tech Note presented by StorPool, Denny Cherry discusses how StorPool has brought to the IT enterprise storage space what users have been wanting for  over a decade now – quality, high-speed, highly scalable storage on commodity hardware. With the networking technology having reached the speeds that we need-, and the SSD/NVMe perf at where we need- it, the StorPool software is the last missing link required to manage the environment efficiently and present the storage to the servers using all standard hardware technology.

In this Tech Field Day article, Denny Cherry discusses how any company that is worried about ransomware should regularly scan their enterprise for ransomware. CyberSense by Index Engines can do that scanning for them, detecting all signs of corruption before a full-scale attack unfolds.

By treating our down-level systems like we treat our production systems we can increase the company’s utilization, decrease outage loss and increase the availability of the systems that our co-workers need to get their work done.

Denny Cherry discusses how setting and meeting realistic RTO can benefit the entire company. By setting realistic goals instead of arbitrary goals, IT has recovery windows that they are able to meet, and the business has a realistic view of how long systems will be down for in the event of a failure.

Companies these days have more data than ever. Even small companies can easily have terabytes of data. Employees need access to proper, reliable, and most importantly correct data in order to translate that raw data into actionable information.

Database schemas change more frequently than we care to admit and keeping up with these changes while ensuring that user data is properly protected is a big ask for any IT organization. Being able to offload those requirements to a software solution that will help with this process becomes key is making the process successful, repeatable, and documentable.