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Automating VMware DR Recovery at Amazon

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Is cloud based DR and recovery all that it is cracked up to be? Many businesses are looking at the cloud as the DR promised land. By drastically reducing the costs of DR infrastructure, the cloud can potentially make DR…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Infrastructure, OneCloud, Provisioned, Recovery, VMware
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Secure Private Cloud File Sharing

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

File sharing and collaboration is critical for businesses that have highly distributed workforces but maintaining control and security over sensitive business data is equally important. File sharing solution provider, Talon, is helping to deliver cloud enabled file sharing to businesses…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Collaboration, Data Mobility, File Sharing, File Sync, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Talon Storage, VPN, WAN
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Why is IT being compared to Facebook?

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

When business application owners begin referring to Facebook as the standard for application availability, IT organizations are being put on notice – deliver or we will go elsewhere. The challenge is that traditional high availability clustering technologies can be costly,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology
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At EMC, the 3rd Platform is all about the Metadata

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage
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The Best of both worlds – Cloudian HyperStore Appliance

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Colm Keegan

In our prior article, we discussed how enterprise data centers have a need for software defined object storage technology that can leverage commodity hardware to drive down data center costs and to enable businesses to refresh their storage infrastructure with…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis

How To Achieve Facebook “Like” High Availability in the Cloud

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Colm Keegan

When IT organizations start being compared to Facebook, in terms of application availability, it is clear that business application owners are becoming increasingly less tolerant of ANY application downtime. In fact during a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “HA and DR…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS Technology
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Is Converged Storage right for you? Four questions to ask

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If you’re an IT pro who is wearing a lot of hats, simplicity is the name of the game. Virtualization technology has made server management simpler, but storage infrastructure management still lags behind. Converged storage solutions promise ease of implementation…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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The two worlds of Private Cloud Storage

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Various industry sources estimate that unstructured data (user files, PDFs, email, rich multimedia, machine sensor data, etc.) accounts for upwards of 90% of all new data growth. Software-defined object storage offers an alternative approach to NAS/SAN systems. But many organizations…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, CPU, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis

How Hyperconvergence can Hyper-drive Virtualization

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.…

Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Virtualization made simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Across many data center environments, business data and new applications are rapidly proliferating. In large part, server virtualization has contributed to this growth since it removes many of the logistical barriers for bringing new business systems online. And while there…