The 5 Critical Questions to ensure you have protection against downtime How much downtime can your business handle before it starts to cause a real disruption to the bottom line? Studies show businesses of all sizes start seeing lasting effects…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Webinar – Designing Backup to reduce downtime for Business Owners
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Posted in Webinar
DRaaS requires new questions
In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Software as a service
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Webinar & Lab Review: Enterprise NAS for Highly Dense VM Environments
Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Exclusive Report: Can your Backup Design handle Veeam?
Veeam and data protection applications like it, arm data protection professionals with a new set of capabilities that they didn’t have access to in the past. So powerful are these capabilities that they can justify the acceleration to a 100%…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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DR is more than recovering data – Podcast
There’s more to data recovery than just getting access to your data. George Crump and I recently got with Jennifer Gill of Zerto to talk about DR in this edition of the Storage Podcast. Click Here To Sign Up For…
Why Virtualized Backup Design Matters
VM specific backup solutions like Veeam are increasingly being used to protect virtualized environments instead of more traditional enterprise backup systems. They provide a seamless way to non-disruptively and efficiently backup virtual machine data plus they include a number of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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Developing your 2015 Flash Strategy
As we approach the last quarter of 2014, IT professionals are reaching out to me about what their flash strategy should be in 2015. Many are looking to move beyond the adoption phase that addresses point solutions and into a…
Nimble fills out their Adaptive Flash Line
Nimble announced two new models to their “Adaptive Flash” line of hybrid disk and flash storage systems. These arrays, the CS300 and CS500, are updated versions of Nimble’s CS200 and CS400 products, respectively, providing a 50% performance improvement over the…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, Cache, Capacity, Flash, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Nimble, SSD
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All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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A better Server-side Flash Solution for increased VM Density
Many of the IT professionals who came to VMworld this week are facing the same situations, they’re looking at flash to increase VM density and improve overall performance. One way is by putting that flash into the host server, particularly…
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