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PHD Virtual Brings Public Cloud Connectivity to Virtual Server Backup

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud backup used to be largely a consumer application, designed to handle relatively small data sets. But now with technologies like deduplication, compression and changed block tracking, which reduce the amount of data that actually ‘walks the wire’ up to…

Tagged with: Backup, Citrix, Cloud, Disaster recovery, PHD Virtual, PHDvirtual, VBA, Virtual backup appliance, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis

A Better Answer than RAID and Replication for Cloud Storage

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud applications and web-based services, such photo sharing sites, create some monumental challenges for a storage infrastructure. Not only must they expand almost without limit, they also need to protect and secure data sets, typically for thousands or millions of…

Tagged with: Cleversafe, Data corruption, Data integrity, Disk array, Erasure code, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
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Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Maximize SQL Performance By Integrating SSD Software & Hardware

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Eric Slack

Getting the most performance impact from a flash purchase involves more than just buying fast hardware or efficient caching software. Both of these components must work together to maximize their use of processing power that’s available. The hardware certainly must…

Easy, Effective and Efficient Server SSD Caching

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Eric Slack

SSDs (solid state devices) are becoming more mainstream and now ‘placement’ technologies like caching are getting increased attention as users strive to get the most out of their solid state investments. Caching primary disk storage with NAND flash can improve…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, HyperCache, Linux, Solid-state drive, SSD, VeloBit, VMware, Windows
Posted in Product Analysis

PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Cleversafe is An Established Supplier in the Re-emerging Object Storage Market

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Eric Slack

The explosion of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data Archiving has created use cases where organizations have almost unlimited capacity requirements but still need good retrieval performance. Traditional NAS file storage can’t scale large enough and the deep…

Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, NetApp, Object Storage, Scalability, Shutterfly, Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog

OCZ’s VXL Solves the “DAS Problem” of PCIe Flash

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Eric Slack

Storage problems are ‘taking the fun’ out of virtualization. Legacy storage systems can’t keep up with the performance demands of highly random workloads that server virtualization environments generate. Because of this, companies are seeing these deployments make for much lower VM…

Tagged with: flash storage, ISCSI, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis

Is it Time for Hybrid SSD RAID Controllers?

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Eric Slack

Server side SSD caching solutions are popular implementation choices for performance upgrades because they allow users to put the performance right where it’s needed, in the application server itself. For many of these use cases, a direct attached disk array…