Why IT Needs A Vendor Neutral Technology Showcase Many of today’s IT industry trade shows are hosted by the big industry juggernauts. While many of these events have value, the fact is, you’re only playing in their “World”. In other…
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The Problems With Server-Side Storage, Like VSAN
The expression, “everything old is new again”, certainly applies to the renewed interest in server-side storage. Due to the widespread adoption of server virtualization technology, internal server storage is once again being hailed as a simple way to bring performance…
Why Storage-As-A-Service Is The Future Of IT
Selecting the right storage hardware can often be a no-win proposition for the IT professional. The endless cycle of storage tech refreshes and capacity upgrades puts IT planners and their administrators into an infinite loop of assessing and re-assessing their…
Data Profiling Grows Up – Index Engines 5.1
Data profiling allows organizations to report and analyze file and email content in order to streamline their data center. By non-disruptively scanning NAS and server storage repositories, backup tapes and archives such as SharePoint, IT planners can gain deep insight…
Tagged with: Data Profiling, Exchange, Hypervisor, Index Engines, NAS, SharePoint, Virtual
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Posted in Article, Product Analysis
Attaining Ongoing Storage Savings
Data center planners tasked with lowering the cost of storage have an unenviable job. Several industry sources state that data is doubling every two years and the principal source of this growth is unstructured data (user files, PDFs, rich multimedia,…
Tagged with: Archiving, Assessment, Data Profiling, File server, LTFS, LTO, NAS, Object Storage, Tape
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Customizing the File Sync and Share Experience
The use of file sync and share services has grown like wild fire amongst end users, but many folks in IT are adopting a laissez faire attitude about it. After all, IT managers have more pressing issues to deal with,…
Why IT Needs to Offer Data Protection As A Service
Technologies like application virtualization have given end users increasingly more choice in today’s IT marketplace. New business services can be rapidly spun up on-demand, either in the four walls of the data-center or out into a cloud service provider’s (CSP)…
Tagged with: Application, Backup, Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Infrastructure, Protection
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Posted in Article
Don’t Let File Sync and Share Sink Your Business
Data “leakage” is becoming an increasing problem for businesses today given the widespread use of consumer grade file sync and share services. To maximize their productivity, many users will sync their file data across their laptop, tablet, smartphone and home…
Why Enterprises Need Hybrid Cloud Storage
Most industry sources estimate that approximately 90% of all new data growth in corporate data centers today is from unstructured data. In some environments this data is nearly doubling every two years, creating a serious scaling challenge for traditional storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Cloudian, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Object Storage, ROI, SaaS, Webinar
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Posted in Blog
Ignoring Dropbox – At Your Peril
The consumerization of IT is creating a dilemma for IT organizations. End users are demanding the ability to work from any location from any device globally and that is starting to put a lot of pressure on IT to keep…
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