Data security has taken on a whole new level of importance in light of recent events like the Heartbleed bug and revelations that major cloud sites have had millions of user credentials compromised by hackers. Recently I sat down with…
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Storage Q&A: Can File Sync and Share be made secure?
Tagged with: Data center, Data Protection, File Sharing, File Sync, file sync and share, PanTerra, Security
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Storage Q&A: How to improve Bare Metal Server performance
When people have issues with performance on a server, the first thing they think about is adding flash to that server for tiering or caching. It’s a logical first step. For most companies these servers are hosting their VMware environment,…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Bare Metal, I/O, SAN, SanDisk, Virtualization, VM Density
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Posted in Storage Q&A
Break out of the NetApp jail – Podcast
NetApp is great, but it can get pricey. David Cerf of Crossroads and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump talk with me about how you can set your budget free by breaking out of the NetApp capacity jail. Click here to…
Tagged with: Crossroads, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Flash memory, NAS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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ChalkTalk Video – Bridging the Gap between Consumer and Enterprise SSDs
The SAS/SATA SSD market has evolved into two main groups; drives built for enterprise storage systems and those designed for consumers’ PCs and laptops. But SSDs are also being put into servers for application acceleration and faster boot up, a…
Four NEW requirements for backup – Podcast
Storage Switzerland and Drobo held a webinar on Wednesday, July 11th on four new requirements for backup. Joe Disher from Drobo and George Crump from Storage Switzerland join me to talk about the webinar. Click here to view the webinar on…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Deduplication, Drobo, Flash, Hard disk drive, NAS, Storage, Unstructured data
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ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud
The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
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ChalkTalk Video – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place
Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
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ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup products have solved many of the data protection problems that slowed down initial server virtualization deployments. These solutions, and now even some traditional enterprise backup applications, offer the ability to cut the amount of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Drobo, Recovery in Place, Veeam, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
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Storage Q&A: on the waste of VDI only Storage
Charlie: A lot of webinars coming up with Storage Switzerland. George Crump is with us to talk about these. George, we have everything from server-side flash, to stopping performance sprawl, 5 keys to successful hybrid cloud strategy, and avoiding the…
Tagged with: Hybrid Cloud, I/O, Infrastructure, Performance Sprawl, SAN, Server Side Flash, VDI, Virtual, Virtualization, Webinar
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Keys to Successful Hybrid Cloud Strategies – Podcast
Avere System’s Mark Eastman and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan talk with us about Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy. Watch our webinar “Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” and get an exclusive…
Tagged with: Avere, Backup, backup system, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Hybrid Cloud, Storage
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