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Scale-Out Architecture: Hyper Scalability Begins at Home

Bringing the Concepts of Hyperconvergence to Data Management and Secondary Storage

Published September 2018
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The public cloud is offering enterprises the convenience of scalability and easy availability but IT executives are learning painfully well the public cloud can also come with a high price tag. Cloud data migration is one of the drivers to consider as IT executives look at on-premises operations to see where they can achieve hyper-scalability and flexibility, but with a controlled budget to maximize business value.

In this brief, we will suggest questions you will want to ask yourself and your teams in considering deployment of scale-out, data protection and secondary storage architecture. This includes transitioning from traditional, single-purpose architecture to economical, general purpose, hardware that can support applications and workloads with cloud-level flexibility.