Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Briefing Note: For Veeam it’s about more than Backup, it’s about Availability
Tagged with: Data Protection, Protection, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Veeam
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The value of Global Primary Storage Deduplication
Standard deduplication is the elimination of redundant data on a single storage system. Whether that system is used for backup or primary data, the goal is to put as much data as possible on a single storage system so that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Global Deduplication, Permabit, Redundancy, Test/Dev, Thin provisioning, WAN
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Analyst Blog: What is Real Software Defined Storage?
When it comes to defining specific parts of the storage industry the definition should be as general as possible, avoiding vendor specifics while not being so generic that it becomes useless and doesn’t categorize anything. We’ve successfully applied this philosophy…
Briefing Note: What does Dell see in Exablox’s Scale-out NAS?
Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, Exablox, NAS, Object, Protection, Scale-Out, Snapshot
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Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?
The interest in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is at an all-time high and data center operators want to know if now is the time to move towards this type of a storage infrastructure. In our latest workshop series “Software Defined Storage…
Tagged with: Infrastructure, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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Five Reasons to run MS-SQL on All-Flash
Applications are often the key service that data centers provide to their organizations. The speed at which these applications can respond to the user’s requests is often THE measurement of how IT is perceived by the organization. As a result…
SlideShare – Hyper-scale Nightmare -The Potential Consequences of using Consumer-grade Flash in the Data Center
Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used…
Briefing Note: Intronis Reverses Backups and Simplifies Delivery
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…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Intronis, MSP, Protection, Recovery, VAR
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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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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…
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