As business data continues its relentless migration to the cloud, providers of cloud hosted environments and applications are creating the perfect storm for their legacy storage systems, a storm that will break the ‘cloud promise’. These environments require high scalability,…
Yearly Archives: 2013
How Legacy Storage Breaks The Cloud
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Hardware, IOPS, OnApp, Scalability, Service-level agreement, Storage area network, Virtual machine
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup
Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…
Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Multi-Hypervisor, Multi-Use Application Availability
In an ever changing IT landscape, business owners and data center managers are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure that critical business information is not only adequately protected, but that the underlying system infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand outages…
Tagged with: Availability, Disaster recovery, Hyper-V, Multi-Hypervisor, Neverfail, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery
Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
A Better Answer than RAID and Replication for Cloud Storage
Cloud applications and web-based services, such photo sharing sites, create some monumental challenges for a storage infrastructure. Not only must they expand almost without limit, they also need to protect and secure data sets, typically for thousands or millions of…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Data corruption, Data integrity, Disk array, Erasure code, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?
A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…
Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction
While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Boosting Server Performance
SSD Performance Accelerated A typical flash implementation constitutes less than 1% of the overall storage provisioned in a typical production environment. Consequently, systems planners have to exercise extreme prudence when deciding how to best utilize flash storage. They have to…
Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Intel, IOPS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Dealing With The Copy Data Explosion
For many years now, IT storage professionals have had to cope with the seemingly unfettered growth of data across the business environment. The lion’s share of data growth by far, however, is not caused by ordinary, day-to-day business activity, but…
Affordable High Performance PCIe SSD
Server Side Flash Acceleration Application owners that have not deployed server side SSD have generally relied on storage administrators to address I/O issues. Despite their best efforts, storage admins are a resource in high demand and as a result, they…
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