One task that many data centers would like to get rid of is data protection. Offering it as a service is not only popular with managed service providers (MSP) and value-added resellers (VAR), it also launches many of them into…
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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Posted in Briefing Note
Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS
Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
HGST Buys Amplidata – The Beginning of an Object Storage Shopping Spree?
As we reported last year HGST is on a shopping spree, and that spree continues into 2015 as today HGST announced that is has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Amplidata. The purpose of the Amplidata acquisition is to…
SolidFire Analyst Day: Unlimited Drive Wear, Seamless Upgrades, more Platforms
SolidFire has historically been a solution targeted for service providers and private clouds, with features that support Quality of Service (QoS), multi-tenancy, automation, etc. Their plan has been to provide a consolidated, high-performance storage solution that scales seamlessly and can…
Tagged with: Flash, QOS, Quality of service, SaaS, Software as a service, SolidFire, SSD
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Posted in Blog
Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden
When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford
Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…
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