Canvas CEO James Quigley sits down with George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company. We talk to the veteran entrepreneur about Shadow IT and how his company uniquely addresses it. James also provides insight into his leadership…
Yearly Archives: 2015
The Problems with Cloud DR
The Disaster Recovery (DR) stakes are higher than ever. No longer is being able to recover “eventually” an acceptable strategy. Users and application owners at organizations of all sizes are expecting to be back online within hours, no matter how…
ChalkTalk Video: Is it Time for Data Lake 2.0?
A Data Lake is a global repository. It collects data from a lot of sources, like sensors or the Internet of Things. A second generation Data Lake needs to evolve to get the data kept in the “lake” out to…
Addressing the All-Flash Wall – Nexgen Announces All-Flash Array with Tiering and QoS
The first wave of all-flash arrays was typically purchased to address a specific performance problem like a poor performing database application or to allow a VDI project to live up to user expectations. Most all-flash arrays successfully addressed, and in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, NexGen, QOS, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
The Storage Requirements for 100% Virtualization
After a rapid move from test to production, virtualization of existing servers in many companies seems to slow down. While it is true that most data centers have adopted a virtualize first philosophy, getting those older, mission critical workloads virtualized…
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Critical, QOS, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Future Proofing the Storage Reseller
Storage resellers are in a precarious situation. They have to differentiate not only themselves from other storage resellers theyat have to differentiate themselves from storage manufacturers that are often tempted to have a direct relationship with the reseller’s customers. On…
Empowering the Cloud to Manage Non-Flash Data
An all-flash data center can respond instantly to user requests for information, and it requires less power and less physical floor space. The problem is moving to an all-flash storage infrastructure is expensive. However, it can be an affordable reality…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Flash, infinite io, Latency, Meta-table, Optimization, SSD, WAN
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Certified Microsoft Container Technology
Briefing Note: DH2i Achieves Microsoft Platform Ready Status In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland and DH2i discussed leveraging container technology to create an MS-SQL framework that improves high availability and disaster tolerance with policy based SLA Management. While Docker grabs…
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