Yearly Archives: 2014

EMC World 2014 – “Redefine”

During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space

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The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use

It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure  these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to

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Preview: Avere Hybrid Cloud Webinar – Podcast

Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and Avere Systems CEO Ron Biancini talk about Hybrid Cloud and how it can help your data center. Click here to register for the live webinar on Tuesday, May 13, or to listen to it

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A One-box Upgrade for Small Business IT – Part 2

The DS5100/6100 is a compact, network attached storage (NAS) system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world today. Although designed for the small- to medium-sized business, it features Windows Storage Server 2012

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Flash Wear and How it Impacts SSD Choice

Watch Now On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” to get an exclusive white paper Everything we use wears out and eventually falls apart, especially in mechanical systems like hard disk drives (HDDs). These marvels of modern

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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. The Enterprise

Watch our On Demand webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper One of the key data points coming out of EMC World 2014 last week was that the adoption of the “cloud”,

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The Easy Button for Hybrid Cloud Storage

Watch the On Demand Webinr “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper Various industry sources estimate that upwards of 70% of business computing and storage will remain in private data centers for the

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EMCworld: Integrating old and new technologies – Podcast

Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and I talk about all of the one-on-one meetings George had with EMC officials at EMCworld 2014 in Las Vegas. And one of the things we talked about is EMC’s ability combine technologies seamlessly.

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VDI Storage Should Do More than Just VDI

What do companies expect from a VDI project? In the long run they expect more flexible device deployment, lower desktop support costs, and better protection from device and data loss. But short term, a VDI deployment can’t make things worse

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