Yearly Archives: 2015

Storage News for Feb. 14 – Podcast

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Here are some of the latest headlines from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on the podcast. Click below for links to the blogs on Storage Swiss relating to each story: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance…

Tagged with: Arcserve, Asigra, Catalogic, DH2i, Nexenta, Protection, Virtual Instruments
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How Snapshots CAN Be Backups – Podcast

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Snapshots have been part of the backup process for years, enabling traditional backup systems to reduce their impact on operations. But can you use snapshots to replace the backup itself? Historically, the answer has been “no”. But now, with new…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots, Webinar
Posted in Podcast

Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: VI’s VirtualWisdom4 shows you how to Manage your Open Systems Performance

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtual Instruments provides active system monitoring and management solutions that generate a significant amount of data to improve SAN efficiency and performance. But users need more than an abundance of information to effectively manage their environments. In fact, this profusion…

Briefing Note: DH2i Brings Containers to Windows Server

Posted on February 12, 2015 by George Crump

Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…

Tagged with: Cloud, DH2i, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, MS-SQL, ROI, SQL, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Blog

Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015

Posted on February 11, 2015 by George Crump

Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…

Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

Storage Switzerland held a well-attended webinar with Tegile called “The State of Flash in 2015”. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and Tegile System’s Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat review some follow-up questions to the webinar. Question 1: “What is the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, performance, Software Defined, Tegile
Posted in Storage Q&A

Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…

Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
Posted in Blog