The worst case recovery scenario is failure of your storage system, not destruction of the data center. If your data center is destroyed, you can at least point to where it used to be and most users will understand the…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Podcast – Biggest Recovery Nightmare: Storage System Failure or Total Data Center
Tagged with: Backup, Backup and Recovery, Disaster recovery, ExaGrid, RPO, RTO, Veeam
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The Storage Challenges of Desktop as a Service
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able…
Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDD, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, ROI, Storage Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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The easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better
Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…
Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStac
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Server Side Flash in a Shared Flash World
Server side flash, in its various forms, served as a precursor to shared flash arrays. It allowed IT planners to surgically address specific application response time issues caused by storage without having to implement a flash based array. This saved…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid array, Latency, PCIe, Server Side Cache, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization, VM
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StorageSwiss Adds New Analyst
FORT WORTH, Tx. – Experience and knowledge of the storage industry are hallmarks that have made Storage Switzerland one of the world’s leading storage analyst firms. The company is adding to its depth of experience and knowledge by adding Joseph…
Docker: What do Storage Pros need to know?
Docker was created to solve the problems that organizations face when they implement server virtualization on a wide scale; overhead and inefficiency. These challenges occur because virtualization is a sledgehammer to the problem it was designed to solve; allow multiple…
Technical Considerations for adding a Cloud Backup Service to your MSP Portfolio
In order to keep up with a dramatically changing IT landscape, many value added resellers (VARs), large and small, are considering becoming managed service providers (MSP). A logical first step for these organizations is to provide backup as a service.…
Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, MSP, VAR, VM
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Podcast: Does Software Defined Storage Have to Go Back to School?
Software Defined Storage (SDS) brings great promise to the data center. It can increase flexibility, simplify management and decrease costs. But SDS can do so much more and in this podcast I’ve asked our founder George Crump and the VP…
Is Hybrid Cloud Backup Dead?
Traditional backup processes were developed for local backup systems, not the cloud, and so were not designed to minimize the time required to complete backup jobs over a WAN. Most cloud backup solutions leverage this same technology, storing data locally…
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