The SAS/SATA SSD market has evolved into two main groups; drives built for enterprise storage systems and those designed for consumers’ PCs and laptops. But SSDs are also being put into servers for application acceleration and faster boot up, a…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast
Storage Switzerland and Drobo held a webinar on Wednesday, July 11th on four new requirements for backup. Joe Disher from Drobo and George Crump from Storage Switzerland join me to talk about the webinar. Click here to view the webinar on…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Drobo, Flash, Hard disk drive, NAS, Storage, Unstructured data
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Posted in Podcast
Poll – What Type of Storage Network Are You Using?
To get an exclusive copy of Storage Switzerland’s White Paper “Maximum VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking and Management” register for the on demand webinar and download your copy of the paper today. Brocade and VMware are clients of Storage…
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Micron’s M500DC – an Enterprise-grade SSD at a reasonable cost
Over-buying or over-spec’ing an SSD solution is all too common because managers often aren’t completely sure of the requirements for a particular application but can’t risk having their SSD fail or even underperform. The available options have been consumer-class drives…
ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud
The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
ChalkTalk Video – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place
Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
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The ROI of Dense Virtual Machines
Organizations that have fully embraced virtualization are buying host-class servers to put their VMs on. This equipment is “richer” in its configuration, with more processing power, more memory and higher quality components than the typical server designed for a single…
Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, Webinar
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ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup products have solved many of the data protection problems that slowed down initial server virtualization deployments. These solutions, and now even some traditional enterprise backup applications, offer the ability to cut the amount of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Drobo, Recovery in Place, Veeam, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
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Posted in Video
How to design Storage for the Next Generation Data Center
Being a cloud provider is a challenging proposition. Like a utility, a cloud provider (public or private) has to support almost any level of user consumption and maintain that support as demand changes, with little or no advanced notice. These…
The three requirements of the modern Storage Network
The storage network has new requirements being placed on it so it can keep pace with the modern data center. The first cause of change is being driven by virtualization, both server and desktop. We have the compute power and…
Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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