Why Reinvent Deduplication? Isn’t Cloud Storage Cheap?

February 16, 2017 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

Most people assume cloud storage is cheaper than on-premises storage. After all, why wouldn’t they? You can rent object storage for $276 per terabyte per year or less, depending on your performance and access requirements. Enterprise storage costs between $2,500 to $4,000 per terabyte per year, according to analysts at Gartner and ESG. This comparison […]

Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud

January 20, 2017 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for over 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions were designed for the world of on-premises infrastructure and structured applications and relational databases. But the world is changing. In the last blog, […]

Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments

December 19, 2016 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

By design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model where an organization uses services of one or more public cloud service providers, sometimes in addition to using its own data centers. In […]

Multi-Cloud: The Danger of Data Lock-In

October 4, 2016 by Shalabh Goyal 1 Comments

Enterprises rarely think about cloud portability issues before transferring large amounts of data onto a cloud service provider such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. They were likely to ask questions on usage by other players in the industry (“the herd effect”) as well as the reliability of the cloud service and […]

MongoDB Atlas: One Giant Leap, But More Steps Needed

July 18, 2016 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

Atlas, holding up your databases in the cloud. I’m not sure if that’s what MongoDB was going for, but I personally like the analogy. At MongoDB World’16, MongoDB announced Atlas, a database-as-a-service offering (in the cloud) of the company’s popular open-source NoSQL database. Rather than dealing with the complexities of setting up, provisioning and configuring […]

Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2

July 12, 2016 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise grade data protection. And in the first part of this blog series, I discussed the existing solutions for backup and recovery of MongoDB […]

Using MongoDB for a Product Catalog Application

July 11, 2016 by Shalabh Goyal 0 Comments

In today’s era of data-driven business, enterprises are continuously adopting new technologies to gain a competitive advantage. Distributed and cloud databases is one such technology. These databases are fundamentally different from relational databases, offering scalability, availability and flexible data models that are beyond the capabilities of traditional relational databases. MongoDB is one of the leading […]