Yearly Archives: 2015

What’s causing the Copy Data Explosion

Posted on February 9, 2015 by George Crump

Remember back when companies had copy machines in every department? Making copies was a tedious exercise that probably wasted more paper than anything else. But for the IT department, creating copies (data copies) is a far more serious problem, one…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
Posted in Blog

Storage News Update Feb. 7 – Podcast

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Lots of traveling coming up and a review of storage acquisitions are in this week’s Storage News Update from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on this week’s news podcast. Click here to learn more about George’s talks…

Tagged with: Brocade, Data Protection Workshop, Protection, Riverbed, Tech Target, Veeam
Posted in Podcast

Does Post Process Deduplication have a Role in the Future of Deduplication

Posted on February 6, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article “The State of Deduplication in 2015” we took a look at how deduplication is impacting the data center. Deduplication continues to change how data protection is performed and it is dramatically changing primary storage, most notably…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAND
Posted in Blog

Analyst Blog: Why Cloud File Sync and Share is not Backup

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Eric Slack

In a recent briefing note we discussed the need for backing up cloud-based productivity applications, also called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), such as GoogleDocs, Office365 or SalesForce.com. People often assume that because these services are storing their data in the cloud, that…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, SaaS, Software as a service
Posted in Blog

Analyst Blog: The IOPS Gap

Posted on February 5, 2015 by George Crump

At Storage Switzerland, we have the privilege of talking to IT professionals from around the world about a variety of subjects, one of the most popular of which is storage I/O performance. While IOPS is a familiar discussion point both…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, I/O, IOPS, performance
Posted in Blog

How Cloud can enable the All-Flash Data Center

Posted on February 5, 2015 by George Crump

It’s been said that, given the choice, every data center would choose to be all-flash. This is because access to near limitless performance not only increases application scale it also simplifies many day-to-day storage management tasks. This potential has led…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disk, Flash, Hybrid
Posted in Article

Storage Q&A: High Availability for Data Centers of all Sizes

Posted on February 4, 2015 by George Crump

SIOS Technologies and Storage Switzerland recently joined forces for a highly attended webinar. The attendees asked some outstanding questions about flexible HA and DR for virtual servers and cloud environments. Joining Storage Switzerland Founder and Chief Steward George Crump on…

Tagged with: Asynchronous, High Availability, Hypervisor, RAID, Redundancy, Replication, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, Synchronous
Posted in Storage Q&A

Quantum’s Q-Cloud Integrates the Cloud into StorNext and DXi Environments

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

The cloud offers a number of significant benefits for IT organizations, especially flexibility, as it allows companies to expand resource capacity on a moment’s notice. Cloud-based storage and services also provide a way to shift infrastructure costs from upfront, capital…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disk, Efficiency, Hybrid, Metadata, Quantum, Scale-Out, Tape, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
Posted in Product Analysis

Copy Data vs. Snapshots

Posted on February 4, 2015 by George Crump

As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…

Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog

Briefing Note: SolidFire shows why more and less is better for Software Releases

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Nitrogen is SolidFire’s seventh generation OS release, following their theme of naming operating system versions after elements, Oxygen being the next. With 100+ elements on the period table, they should be set for the next several years of releases. While…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Infrastructure, SolidFire, SSD, VLAN
Posted in Briefing Note