Yearly Archives: 2016

MeetTheCEO: Getting to Zero With Vision Solutions’ Alan Arnold

You can call this edition of Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCTO when we talk to the Chief Technical Officer for Vision Solutions Alan Arnold. As Executive Vice President and CTO, Arnold is responsible for the company’s global technology, services

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Webinar: Improving Time to Value for Enterprise Big Data Analytics

Embracing and taking full advantage of big data analytics can provide tremendous returns to organizations willing to invest. The problem is that while we understand the value of analytics, how to get started is confusing. Most big data analytic projects

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Analyst Opinion: Backup Terminology Matters

If technology vendors don’t agree on what generic industry terms mean, how in the world are customers supposed to compare similar products? Wait. Maybe that’s the plan. Consider the terms backup, archive, & continuous, for example. The terms backup and

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#MeetTheCEO: ClusterHQ CEO Solves the Docker Container Storage Challenge

Containers do more than store big stuff on ships or trains. Dockers are more than a pair of pants. Both are new cutting edge technologies of that are modernizing data centers. But Docker Containers create a storage challenge. In our

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Barracuda Adds MSPs to its Portfolio

There are managed service providers that promise they can backup your data center for a few dollars a month. And for that cheap price, all the organization has to do is install a little piece of software, enter your credit

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Webinar: NAS vs. Object Storage: 10 Reasons Why Object Storage Will Win

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and file servers were the foundation of collaboration in the 90’s. These storage systems primarily served the needs of users that needed to share files for projects. In the 2000’s NAS systems found a lease

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Filling the Provider Backup Gateway Gap

Artisan Infrastructure Briefing Note Artisan Infrastructure is a leading cloud infrastructure, management, and business continuity solutions provider. Its solutions enable cloud and hosting providers to migrate, manage and deliver continuously available cloud applications for their customers and suppliers. Artisan provides

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Does Object Storage kill RAID?

Like a lot of technologies that are past their prime, RAID will continue to serve a function for a very long time. It’s an inexpensive way to string together multiple drives and protect yourself against the loss of one or

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ChalkTalk Video: Improving Time to Value for Enterprise Big Data Analytics

George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain how to reduce time and avoid complexity of do-it-yourself analytics projects with the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP). Purpose-built by HDS for fast-growing data analytics workloads, HSP

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Why Storage Switzerland

The news is out; I’m joining George Crump and the team at Storage Switzerland. If you know our history, that may leave some of you scratching your heads a bit. George and I don’t agree on much. In fact, when

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