Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash When re-thinking the storage architecture in the data center, the choice typically comes down to a few factors. The first is how much budget is there available? You can only buy the performance you…
Yearly Archives: 2013
Part II – Selecting The Right Storage Architecture Design
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hardware, Server, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage Resource Management
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Deep Storage Connects Long Term Data Storage to the Workflow
Deep Storage is a tape tier that’s been made accessible to applications and workflows without file system limitations or the complexity of archiving solutions. Using a REST-based interface called “Deep Simple Storage Services” (DS3) Deep Storage can be directly connected…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Disk storage, Flash memory, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, storage efficiency
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…
Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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Backing Up Distributed Data
The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…
Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo Test Drive
It seems like it took forever but thunderbolt enclosures are finally coming to market. One of the first ones we have had a chance to get our hands on is the Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo. This dual drive unit allows…
Tagged with: Akitio, Drive bay, Hard disk drive, Neutrino, Samsung, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, Test Drive, Thunderbolt
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Avoid MSP Backup Sprawl: Less is More in the Cloud
Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Intronis, Microsoft Windows, Remote backup service, Site Management, Windows
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Developing a Service Oriented Approach to Data Protection
There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…
Tagged with: Backup, Dell, High Availability, Incremental backup, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows
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Can Tape Save Cloud Storage?
“Cloud Storage” – the term invokes a vision of an infinitely scalable disk storage system assembled from commodity hardware that can provide near-instant access to the data it stores. There are two problems with this concept of cloud storage ‘nirvana’.…
Tagged with: Cloud storage, Disk storage, Hardware, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, Tape library
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