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Neos Ventures Helps Enterprises To The Cloud

You can’t get enough good help these days; particularly when it comes to deploying and managing virtualized cloud infrastructure. IT global solutions provider, Neos Ventures, is positioning themselves as a leading player in the burgeoning cloud infrastructure services market to

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Climbing the Cloud Wall of Worry

The recent Nirvanix shutdown has prompted many organizations to reassess their public cloud deployment strategy.If a well funded cloud service provider (CSP) with major OEM relationships wasn’t able to survive, what does that portend for other players in the industry?

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Cloud Data Control

In the wake of the Nirvanix Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, maintaining control over business data deployed in public cloud infrastructures is even more critical than ever. Solutions like cloud-to-cloud mirroring, for example, are likely to be the norm moving forward.

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Avoid MSP Backup Sprawl: Less is More in the Cloud

Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.

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What Are Integrated Backup Appliances?

A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which

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EMC’s ViPR Unleashed

Shipping one Exabyte of storage was a milestone that took EMC ten years to reach. Amazingly, in 2013, EMC was able to reach that same heady number in just one month’s worth of storage shipments. Clearly, business is good at

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Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud

Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect

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Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage

Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event

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Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing

It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape

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EMC’s Backup Journey to the Future

The recent EMC Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) product launch covered a dizzying array of interesting BRS product announcements. Amongst these announcements was the unveiling of the final phase of the total hardware and software integration of their market leading Avamar

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