Is tape for data protection really dead? There are more than a few people in the industry who seem to think so. Even the tape industry often positions tape as being for archiving rather than data protection. Moreover, there is…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities
Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, file sync and share, Recovery, SMB, Unstructured data
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MSPs: Are You Considering All The Backup Angles?
An ideal addition to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is cloud backup. But it is a very competitive market. The MSP is replacing an existing IT service, one they may want to get rid of, but one that they do…
Webinar: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
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MeetTheCEO: Cloud DR Vendor Infrascale’s CEO Ken Shaw
In this week’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down Ken Shaw, the CEO of Infrascale, a Cloud DR vendor. Infrascale provides backup, recovery and disaster recovery as services. Join in this podcast as we learn about this CEO from…
Why Storage vMotion hurts and how to stop the pain
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
Webinar: Five Reasons the Enterprise Needs HPC Technology
Up until the past year or two, High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments and the enterprise data center have been separate domains. But now the data intensive demands of analytics, migrations to cloud infrastructures and ever growing numbers of users looking to…
Webinar: 3 Important Factors for MSPs Adding Cloud Backup to Their Portfolio
Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
Hyper-Converged Architecture vs. Software Defined Storage
Hyper-Converged Architectures (HCA) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) are two of the most talked about trends in the data center, and both are gaining traction. For IT planners sifting through the deluge of vendor claims about these two technologies to…
Tagged with: FalconStor, HCA, Hyper-converged, Scale, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine
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