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StorageShort: Fast Recovery Point Objectives with Change Block Backup and In-place Recovery

Posted on July 1, 2015 by George Crump

Meeting a strict recovery point and recovery time objective requires more frequent backups and the ability to recover without transferring data. In this 74 second video we tell you how to meet strict RPO/RTOs. For more details watch our on-demand…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Panzura SkyBridge solves VDI Storage Challenge

Posted on July 1, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,…

Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Panzura, Replication, VDI
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Briefing Note: Idealstor Enables the Hyper-Converged SMB

Posted on June 30, 2015 by George Crump

Small to medium sized business (SMB) are a great target for hyper-converged architectures because SMBs don’t typically have the application requirements that would justify dedicated compute and storage hardware. The problem is that many hyper-converged architectures (HCAs) are too expensive…

Tagged with: Flash, HCA, Hyper-converged, Idealstor, NAS, SAN, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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The Storage Challenges of Desktop as a Service

Posted on June 30, 2015 by George Crump

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able…

Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Replication, VDI, VPN
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Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?

Posted on June 29, 2015 by George Crump

Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there…

Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDD, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, ROI, Storage Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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The easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better

Posted on June 26, 2015 by George Crump

Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…

Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStac
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Server Side Flash in a Shared Flash World

Posted on June 26, 2015 by George Crump

Server side flash, in its various forms, served as a precursor to shared flash arrays. It allowed IT planners to surgically address specific application response time issues caused by storage without having to implement a flash based array. This saved…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid array, Latency, PCIe, Server Side Cache, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization, VM
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Docker: What do Storage Pros need to know?

Posted on June 25, 2015 by George Crump

Docker was created to solve the problems that organizations face when they implement server virtualization on a wide scale; overhead and inefficiency. These challenges occur because virtualization is a sledgehammer to the problem it was designed to solve; allow multiple…

Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Shared Storage, Virtualization
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Technical Considerations for adding a Cloud Backup Service to your MSP Portfolio

Posted on June 23, 2015 by George Crump

In order to keep up with a dramatically changing IT landscape, many value added resellers (VARs), large and small, are considering becoming managed service providers (MSP). A logical first step for these organizations is to provide backup as a service.…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, MSP, VAR, VM
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Eliminating RPO/RTO With Affordable Secondary Storage

Posted on June 19, 2015 by George Crump

Backup 2.0 Workshop On The Way To London We completed Backup 2.0 Dallas and we will be in London on October 22nd. A popular session during the workshop discusses leveraging secondary storage and creating a usable copy of data that is only a…