Yearly Archives: 2015

MeetTheCEO: Cloud Backup Provider Datto’s Austin McChord

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

There has been an unprecedented number of companies entering the cloud backup market in recent years but Datto’s founder and CEO Austin McChord has been at it since 2007. In this MeetTheCEO podcast we learn about McChord and his unique…

Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Storage
Posted in Podcast

Copy Data Management: In-Place vs. Rip and Replace

Posted on July 27, 2015 by George Crump

Copy Data are the copies of production data made for various business functions. It is growing at an alarming rate as IT and business processes beyond data protection demand access to versions of production data. Copy Data Management (CDM) has emerged to manage this data, creating two sub-categories reflective of their approach; “in-place CDM” and “replace CDM”. In this article StorageSwiss explains the differences in these approaches and how to select the one that is best for your data center.

Tagged with: Archive, Catalogic, CDM, Copy Data, Data Protection, Dev/Test, Snapshot
Posted in Article

Weekly Storage Podcast: Storage Industry Quarterly Reports

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. That’s the best way to describe the latest round of quarterly reports coming from businesses in the Storage Industry. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump, Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the…

Tagged with: Amazon Web Services, Commvault, EMC, HP, IBM, Micron, NetApp, Nimble Storage, Podcast, Quantum, SanDisk, SimpliVity, Symantec, Violin Memory
Posted in Podcast

Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Joseph Ortiz

Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly…

Tagged with: Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, HA, RPS, SMB
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization

Posted on July 24, 2015 by George Crump

Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare

Service Provider Counts on XtremIO to Expand Business

Posted on July 24, 2015 by George Crump

Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from…

Tagged with: All-Flash, EMC, Flash, HA, Hybrid, MSP, Scale-Out, SSD, XtremIO
Posted in Case Study

Hadoop Storage: DAS vs. Shared

Posted on July 23, 2015 by George Crump

As Hadoop scales and the data center begins to count on it, the extra expense required to maintain DAS performance, reliability and scalability often end up being more expensive than the shared storage alternative. In this article we discuss how the multi-faceted capabilities of a scale-out, distributed storage software end up being less expensive than DAS.

Tagged with: CIFS, DAS, Hedvig, Metadata, NFS, Shared Storage, Software Defined
Posted in Article

The Top 3 Deduplication Trends

Posted on July 22, 2015 by George Crump

When combined with compression and thin provisioning, deduplication makes a backup disk a cost effective strategy and now makes considering a primary storage tier consisting only of flash reasonable. In our on demand webinar Permabit CEO, Tom Cook and I…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HDD, MLC, Permabit, SLC, TLC, VM
Posted in Blog

Briefing Note: Dell Introduces TLC–3D NAND All-Flash Array

Posted on July 21, 2015 by George Crump

An ongoing concern about flash storage is its endurance. In other words, IT professionals are concerned that these systems will wear out due to heavy write activity prior to being fully amortized. All-flash arrays may be an exception. These systems…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Flash, MLC, SLC, TLC
Posted in Briefing Note

Managing Storage Sprawl, Instead of Consolidating it

Posted on July 21, 2015 by George Crump

At Storage Switzerland we write a lot about storage consolidation. While consolidation can simplify management the initial requirement of refreshing and potentially replacing legacy storage is a show stopper for many data centers. SDS provides a viable alternative if it can be used on existing storage assets so that the management and operation of those devices can be consolidated. In this article we discuss how SDS can provide simplification while being more cost-effective.