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See you at the SNIA Conference – Video

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Join Storage Switzerland at the Data Storage Innovation Conferance in April. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has a new event designed for end users that features certifications, vendor presentations, hands on labs and the opportunity to watch a Storage…

Video – How to Stop Performance Sprawl

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In our recent webinar, How to Stop Hardware Sprawl, we found that users are having a lot of problems handling performance. And performance is generating much of the hardware sprawl problem. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump addresses Performance Sprawl…

Use Software To Get Peak WAN Performance – Podcast

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Get ready for software defined WAN Acceleration for Virtual Environments. Silver Peak VP of Marketing Tony Thompson and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan discuss their recent webinar Ready for Software WAN Acceleration. To see the webinar, click on the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Silver Peak, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization, WAN Acceleration, WAN optimization
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What is RPO? – Recovery Point Objective

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Below is our latest whiteboard video featuring George Crump, Lead Analyst. He provides a preview of one of the areas covered in our upcoming series of workshops with TechTarget and Storage Decisions. In fact, Tuesday, September 29th we will be…

Tagged with: Backup, Comprehensive Data Protection, Data Protection, Recovery, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions
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Creating Enterprise Class File Sync and Share – Podcast

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The use of file sync and share services like Dropbox is becoming more popular. This is creating an IT “blind spot” since administrators have no insight into the corporate data stored there. Organizations need secure file sync and share services…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data center, File Share, File Sharing, File Storage, File Sync, File/synch, PanTerra, Share Services, Shared Storage, Solid-state drive
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Software Defined Storage – Podcast

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Hyper-converged storage is true Software-defined Storage (SDS), since by migrating storage intelligence to the hypervisor it’s completely hardware agnostic. But there’s still room for improvement. In this podcast, we look at how SDS is evolving and how it can continue…

Tagged with: Atlantis ILIO, Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Flash, Flash memory, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Briefing Note – FCIA Announces Gen 6 SAN – Podcast

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump joins Charlie Hodges for a discussion on an announcement from the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) that a Gen 6 Fibre Channel will be available soon. In this podcast you will learn What is Gen…

Podcast – How to Keep Virtualization from Breaking Your Backup.

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Our podcast guests are Kevin Russell, VP of Systems Engineering at ExaGrid, and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to discuss ways to efficiently backup data is a virtualized environment. Click below for our webinar with Kevin and Storage Switzerland’s…

Tagged with: Backup, Data center, disk backup, ExaGrid, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
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Podcast – How Will You Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In this podcast we discuss Storage Hardware Sprawl. Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on.…

Tagged with: Computer data storage, Data Center Sprawl, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Hardware Sprawl
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Podcast – A Toolkit for Comprehensive Data Protection

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

In our latest podcast, I sit down with Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump to discuss a major project that he is working on in 2014. Storage Decisions and Storage Switzerland are partnering together to bring you a…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Podcast, Protection, Security, seminar
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