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Storage News and Insights for the week of 4-24

George Crump and Eric Slack join Charlie Hodges on this week’s Storage News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Huge revenues for Amazon Web Services, driving down costs for cloud storage and showing how the cloud is now as fast as

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Storage News and Insight for the week of 4-17

George Crump joins me on this week’s News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Show Notes Avere introduces use cases for Google Cloud and Google Compute Briefing Note: Promise Technology Vsky — Helping Enterprises Evolve from Terabytes to Petabytes ChalkTalk

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Storage News and Insights for the week of 4-10

George Crump joins me on this week’s News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Join us as we discuss HP leaving the public cloud, and the latest from Connected Data, NIMBOXX and Adeptia   Show Notes: Test Drive: Can Businesses

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Podcast: Understanding your Flash choices for MS-SQL

There are a lot of options for MS-SQL administrators looking to improve storage performance and most of them feature flash. Recently I sat down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sumeet Bansal – Senior Solutions Architect, Databases

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StorageShort: Cost Justify Flash for VDI in 52 Seconds

In this StorageShort George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland discusses one of the best ways to cost justify flash for virtual desktop infrastructures; use the flash array for more than just VDI. Some all-flash and hybrid systems deliver enough

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ChalkTalk Video – What is Software Defined Storage?

In this ChalkTalk Video Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and FalconStor VP of Corporate Marketing Tim Sheets explain what Software Defined Storage (SDS) is, what to look for in a SDS solution and how to determine if SDS makes

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MeetTheCEO: Hedvig’s Avinash Lakshman Brings Distributed Systems Approach to Storage

A key designer of the infrastructures of Amazon and Facebook, Hedvig’s CEO, Avinash Lakshman brings a distributed systems approach to storage. Hedvig is a storage software company that delivers a highly distributed platform which is designed to run on off

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Podcast: What’s the biggest VDI Storage Challenge? – All of Them!

In a recent Storage Switzerland webinar on solving VDI storage challenge, we asked attendees what their biggest VDI storage challenge was. The choices were; reducing cost, improving performance, meeting capacity demands, stopping storage sprawl, or all of the above. The

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Podcast – Fixing fractured backup and bad DR

Zetta found in a recent survey of IT pros from a cross-section of companies that IT environments in most companies are a conglomeration of operating systems, platforms and backup solutions and that backup is a mess for most companies and DR

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Storage News and Insight for the week of 3-28 – Podcast

George Crump and Eric Slack join me on this week’s News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Links to items we discussed in this week’s news and insights podcast: Hedvig brings software defined storage into focus OCZ Intrepid 3700 2

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