Yearly Archives: 2014

End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…

Webinar: Selecting the right tools to meet your Virtual RTO/RPO Objectives

Posted on September 18, 2014 by George Crump

Organizations have high expectations of data protection professionals to return applications to production. In the virtual environment in particular, cost effective tools exist to help meet those objectives. But which one should you use, and when? After all, not all…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, RPO, RTO, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Veeam, Virtual, VM
Posted in Webinar

Overcoming challenges when integrating Disk Backup Appliances with Veeam

Posted on September 18, 2014 by George Crump

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

There is a new breed of backup applications that is gaining acceptance in data centers of all sizes, including the enterprise: VM Specific Backup Applications. These solutions were designed from the ground up, with virtualization in mind and they do…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, I/O, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article

Overcoming the Four Obstacles to VDI Love – Podcast

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

How do you make the VDI experience better? That’s the subject of a webinar available right now On-Demand on storageswiss.com with Rawley Burbridge from IBM and Seth Knox from Atlantis Computing. George Crump from Storage Switzerland led the webinar. The…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Flash, IBM, Solid-state drive, SSD, VDI, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

Storage Administrator Nirvana

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Colm Keegan

What if setting up a new storage system took less time than waiting for a cup of cappuccino to brew at your favorite cafe? Sound too good to be true? Well today at Truth in IT’s Next Generation Storage Summit…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Exablox, Metadata, NAS, SAS, SATA, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Snapshots, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar – Three steps to Backup & Recovery Success

Posted on September 17, 2014 by George Crump

Let’s face it, data protection is more broken than ever. Data center initiatives like virtualization and big data analytics as well as the general expectation of users that everything be up all the time, have created an almost impossible set…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Webinar

Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Storage Q&A

Instant Deduplication and Compression for Tier-1 Storage

Posted on September 16, 2014 by George Crump

Tier-1 vendors are falling behind startups in offering a complete data efficiency solution. As we discussed the reasons why they are so far behind in our recent article, “The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge“, integrating a new technology…

Tagged with: Compression, Data efficiency, Data Optimization, Deduplication, HDD, IOPS, LUN, Permabit, Tier-1
Posted in Product Analysis

Webinar – Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Posted on September 15, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
Posted in Webinar

Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Eric Slack

Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…