Yearly Archives: 2015

Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?

Posted on January 13, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Posted on January 13, 2015 by George Crump

Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…

Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…

Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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The difference between Retroactive Deduplication and Software Defined Storage

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

Short of buying a new storage system with storage efficiency (deduplication and compression) built in, it is difficult to add the technology to an existing storage array. Today there are two ways to accomplish this. First, you can wait for…

Briefing Note: Quorum’s onQ Flex adds on Demand DR Protection for Tier-two Servers

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Eric Slack

Quorum offers local high availability (HA) and cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solutions that are built around their disaster recovery appliances. These systems maintain updated virtual machine clones, ready to run in a few minutes when a primary server goes down.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, HA, High Availability, Quorum, Recovery point objective, RPO, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…

Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: The Ultra48 AssuredSAN, Dot Hill’s new High-Density Hybrid Array

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Eric Slack

Long-time storage systems OEM, Dot Hill, recently announced the Ultra48 AssuredSAN, a high-density, 48-drive, hybrid disk array that runs their RealStor 2.0 software. The Ultra48 is designed with three drawers of 16 x 2.5” drives that can be configured in…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caching, Dot Hill, FC, HDD, Hybrid array, ISCSI, SSD, Tiering
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…

Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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Does Replication equal DR Readiness?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments”, a majority of attendees indicated that replication was their sole method of providing high availability and protecting from disaster. While copying data to a secondary storage…