Yearly Archives: 2014

Can Backup 2.0 meet ALL your SLOs?

Posted on November 19, 2014 by George Crump

Over the last year Storage Switzerland has gone around the world delivering a workshop on data protection for IT professionals. Our focus has been not just on the new technologies that have emerged over the past year, but also on…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Beyond Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO
Posted in Webinar

Solving the concerns of NOT going All-Flash – Podcast

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland and Tegile teamed up for a webinar on the four things you can do to a Hybrid Array to achieve All-Flash performance. Joining me in the podcast talk about webinar attendee concerns about a hybrid flash are George Crump…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hard Drive, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Protection, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Podcast

Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Eric Slack

Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…

Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
Posted in Blog

Webinar – Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Webinar

WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
Posted in Blog

SlideShare – Designing Cloud Backup to reduce DR downtime for IT Professionals

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
Posted in Slideshare

SolidFire lowers Entry Point for Cloud-scale, All-flash Arrays

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Eric Slack

SolidFire is the all-flash array manufacturer that came to market with a scale-out storage system tailored for large-scale multi-tenant environments. These systems offered guaranteed performance, high availability, automated management and a strong efficiency story, based on the advantages that all-flash…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Capacity, Cloud, Infrastructure, IOPS, Multi-Tenant, Scalability, Scale-Out, SolidFire, SSD
Posted in Blog

Making Virtual Cloud Backup Easy with Datto – Podcast

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Cloud integrated backup and DR is getting a lot of attention from IT planners. It can help organizations improve recoverability without having to incur the cost of building out dedicated DR datacenter infrastructure. But are some of these offerings so…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Data Protection, Data recovery, Datto, Disaster recovery, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

Are you Virtualizing your Applications or your Data Center?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by George Crump

Many data centers are now more than 50% virtualized, but most of this virtualization has been application focused leading to silos of virtualization. As a result, each environment (MS-SQL, Exchange, VDI) gets its own storage, compute and network. This process…

Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
Posted in Blog