Yearly Archives: 2015

The State of Deduplication in 2015

Posted on January 26, 2015 by George Crump

At its core, deduplication is an enabling technology. First, it enabled disk based backup devices to become the primary backup target in the data center. Now it promises to enable the all-flash data center by driving down the cost of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, Replication, Retroactive Deduplication, Snapshots, Tiering
Posted in Article

Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
Posted in Briefing Note

Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Briefing Note: DataGravity – Intelligent Primary Storage

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

There is no question that data centers need to provide faster access to ever increasing volumes of data, and do so at increasingly lower price points. To accomplish this storage vendors are focused on integrating flash based storage as well…

Tagged with: Caching, Compression, Data Intelligence, Data Protection, DataGravity, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HSM, ILM, Tiering
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar: How Snapshots CAN be Backups

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…

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

Hyper-scale Nightmare: Using Consumer SSD in the Data Center – Podcast

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

One way admins of hyperscale data centers try to reduce 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 in these environments. In this podcast, Shawn Worsell of OCZ/Toshiba…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Flash, Hyper-scale, Hyperscale, IOPS, OCZ, OCZ Technology, SATA, SSD, Web-scale
Posted in Podcast

OpenStack Swift – Should Enterprise Customers DIY or use SwiftStack?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

The amount of storage being generated everyday by enterprises is growing rapidly, with no sign of slowing down. Enterprise IT is now faced with the challenge of storing and managing this data in a world where IT budgets are stagnant…

Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Integration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStack, TCO
Posted in Article

Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Niche section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Posted on January 21, 2015 by George Crump

In my last three columns I have analyzed the Leader, Visionary, and Challenger sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this column we will take a look at the most confusing part of the Gartner chart, the Niche section. Section…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Gartner, Hardware, Opinion, Primary Storage, SDS, Software, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog

Webinar: Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…

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