The DA2300 is a purpose-built backup appliance from Western Digital that runs the Arkeia backup software package on a capable quad-core, four-drive desktop chassis that WD originally developed for their small business server. While it offers enterprise-level features that meet…
Storage Switzerland and SIOS Technologies are teaming up for a webinar live on October 29th at 12pm CT or ON Demand if you miss the live presentation on the HA and DR must haves for cloud-based MS-SQL. In this podcast,…
We’ve heard about the possibility of an all-flash data center for a long time. But is it possible? Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and Tegile Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat join me on the podcast to preview an webinar…
With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…
When a data center makes the jump to all-flash arrays the impact is dramatic. Applications respond quick and IT operations become simpler as administrators stop spending hours squeezing performance out of hard disk bound systems. This means it’s “game on”…
Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…
Backup and Recovery are vitally important to what we do in the Data Center. We can’t lose data and if something happens, we MUST get them back and you have to recover them fast. To help you have success in…
As we’ve mentioned in previous columns, in order for a VDI project to have any chance of success it has to deliver at least the same computing experience users had prior to their desktop being virtualized. That makes sense, but…
Despite the hype and the promises, most data centers are still “hardware defined”. Are we getting closer to the software defined data center through the use of software defined storage technologies? Or is traditional shared storage that tightly integrates hardware…
Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…
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