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A free gateway on-ramp to Commoditized Cloud Storage

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Is there a road to zero storage costs in the future? From witnessing the ongoing storage pricing wars taking place amongst the industry cloud service providers (CSPs), this doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. In fact, some industry…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Cloud Gateway, File Share, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, NFS, Panzura
Posted in Briefing Note

Virtualized Hyperconvergence – Compute, Storage and Backup all-in-one

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The term “Hyperconvergence” refers to the packaging or bundling of multiple hardware and software components into a single platform to give end-users a simple and rapid way to deploy applications. As a hyperconverged system (server, storage & networking resources combined…

Tagged with: Backup, Compute, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, PCIe, SimpliVity, Storage, Virtualization
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Cloud NAS Storage efficiency

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

How can organizations improve the performance of their existing NAS assets 50x without doing a massive forklift upgrade? The answer could be integrating a Cloud NAS system. As the name implies, a Cloud NAS leverages ubiquitous, low-cost cloud storage, to…

Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, performance, WAN
Posted in Blog

Virtualized Hybrid Disk Backup for Veeam

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Disk based backup has become a staple in many data center environments. But now thanks to advanced recovery capabilities from virtualized backup applications like Veeam, Unitrend’s PHD Virtual and Dell’s vRanger, more is being asked of disk backup systems. For…

Tagged with: Backup, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Virtual Machine Hybrid Cloud data protection

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

There are two converging forces taking place in the world of enterprise IT environments today. First, there is a need to efficiently and non-disruptively backup and protect data in virtualized application infrastructure and secondly, there is an increasing interest amongst…

Tagged with: Avamar, Data Protection, EMC, Hybrid Cloud, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Product Analysis

Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, the audience was asked what their plans were for implementing Hyper-V into their environment. 50% of the respondents stated that they plan to exclusively deploy Hyper-V into their data center while another 25% responded…

Tagged with: HDD, High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
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Server Side Storage, defined for Hyper-V

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many businesses are adopting hypervisor platforms like Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology to reduce their server virtualization total cost of ownership. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and corporations with multiple remote office locations, in particular, are leveraging the economies of…

Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Product Analysis

How to overcome the four obstacles to Cloud Storage

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Business executive and IT professionals alike often share many of the same concerns when it comes to the use of cloud storage. But generally, there are four primary obstacles that businesses need to address before embracing the use of the…