The term Active Archive is thrown around all the time by IT vendors, but what is it really, other than an attempt to make something as old as data management sound cool again? An Active Archive is an archive where…
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Is Your VMware Storage Slacking?
As VMware began its march into production, IT managers discovered the need for a storage area network (SAN) for the organization to fully tap into its potential. The available SANs at the time were difficult and not really VMware ready.…
What’s Your Biggest Backup Hardware Challenge?
The euphoria over disk backup appliances seams to be fading. It used to be that IT professionals were so happy to replace or augment tape that they didn’t look very deep into what the disk appliance was actually doing for…
The Multi-Site Scale-Out Storage Problem
When an organization buys a scale-up storage system it has to predict how much storage performance and capacity it will need over the life of the investment. If an unpredictable requirement for either of these resources occurs then IT will…
Overcome the Data Protection Dilemma – Vembu Briefing Note
Virtualization through hypervisors like VMware and Hyper-V have simplified the data protection and application recovery processes but they have not made it less expensive. Additionally most of these virtualization-specific data protection solutions are almost too myopic, ignoring physical machines all…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Replication, SaaS, Vembu, Virtualization, VMware
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The Storage Challenges that Cassandra and Couchbase Create
Traditionally databases are scale up, running on a single powerful but expensive server. Distributed databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are scale-out and run on commodity white box servers, each of which becomes a node in a cluster. Traditional databases are…
A Graceful Exit for Centera
Organizations have always had applications requiring the storage of their data and in some cases for that data to be immutable. In the late 1990’s, optical jukeboxes were the state of the art for this type of storage. They replaced…
It’s Time To Manage Your Data! – NTP Software Briefing Note
Data is growing, especially file data. This statement should come as no surprise to any IT professional. The response to that growth is typically to keep adding more and more storage capacity. The problem is that most of these additions…
Does NAS Still Make Sense? – Panzura Briefing Note
When network attached storage (NAS) first came to market its initial use case was to store user data, typically found in file server home directories. All users wanted to be able to do is store and share data between a…
Is There A Better Option Than DRaaS?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is very appealing to data center administrators looking to meet ever tightening recovery objectives but still reduce costs. By leveraging DRaaS, organizations can eliminate the cost of a secondary site and buying stand-by equipment…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, Replication
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