The wide area network (WAN) as we know it today is evolving. Over the past decade, many organizations have deployed hardware appliances to help speed up the WAN links between data center sites, as well as between primary data centers…
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Virtualized WAN Acceleration For Hybrid Clouds
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Optimization, Silver Peak, Virtualization, WAN
Posted in Product Analysis
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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure
As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, GRID, Hybrid, Infrastructure, QOS, Virtualization
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Sustainable Data Center Storage Savings
One of the seemingly endless tasks of today’s IT infrastructure planner is finding more ways to squeeze costs out of the data center environment. With data growth soaring across all industries, it is not surprising that storage is often at…
How Data Deduplication Impacts Recovery
Data deduplication has become a standard offering in backup product portfolios. As a technology that has been mainstream for over five years, some IT decision makers may tend to treat deduplication as an afterthought. In actuality, how data deduplication is…
Tagged with: Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, Hybrid, Latency, Recovery, Restore, Virtualization
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Which Is The Right Way To Implement Flash Storage?
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, we polled our audience about how they were currently using caching technology in their environment. A significant percentage of respondents replied that they were using caching directly on their server infrastructure. This is not…
An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data
Catalogic ECX – Enterprise Catalog Management Software Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore-up data…
What’s Wrong With File Sync And Share Offerings?
The proliferation of end user devices like tablets, smartphones and laptops, has created an enormous demand to access business data from anywhere at anytime. The “consumerization of IT” is particularly evident with the growing adoption of cloud-based file synch and…
Tagged with: Authentication, CEBP, Cloud, Encryption, File Sync, Malware, PanTerra, Share Services, SLA
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Are You Designing Backup for the Future or the Past?
Will your backup infrastructure look the same today as it will next year or the year after that? Or are you anticipating that due to the pressures brought on by growing virtualized server environments and its associated data growth, that…
Unstructured Data Meets Tape Archiving Efficiency
Dealing With the Unstructured Data Deluge in Higher Education Colleges and Universities have many of the same issues with efficiently protecting critical data archives as private corporations but arguably, their challenges are even greater. While IT budgets have typically remained…
Webinar – How Server Virtualization Is Breaking Disk Backup
Disk Backup Appliances have traditionally featured deduplication as the primary selling point. While efficiently storing protected data is critical, the ability to scale your systems to meet rampant data growth – while maintaining backup windows and meeting recovery objectives –…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Recovery, Virtualization, Webinar, White paper
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