What does the record turntable and a mainframe computer have in common? Plenty, according to Guy Churchward, President of EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division. During EMC World 2014, Guy made an interesting comparison about how both the music industry…
IT organizations have been continually asked to do more with less, but how do you squeeze blood out of a stone? With soaring data growth rates and more demands being placed on existing storage assets by data intensive systems like…
Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
Veeam Provides Sneak Peek Into Version 8 Protecting data via point-in-time snapshots may be easy to setup and configure but performing a VM based recovery off this data is typically layered with lots of manual and time consuming steps. Not…
Recently I sat down with Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland for a podcast on File Sync and Share Solutions; “Is File Sync & Share Broken?”. Charlie: You have a new article on storageswiss.com, “What’s Wrong with File Sync…
How To Backup And Protect Data In A Mobile World According to MarketWatch, approximately every 3.5 seconds someone in America loses a cell phone. Similarly, other end-user edge devices like laptops and tablets are also prone to loss or theft…
During a recent webinar that Storage Switzerland held with Avere Systems, the audience was asked what their top concerns were when using cloud storage. Not surprisingly, the majority of the respondents stated “performance” and “security”. In fact, anecdotally we have…
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…
During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space…
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