Data continues to grow and the number of storage systems required to support this growth is growing right along with it. Nowhere is the growth of data worse than in secondary storage, in fact some studies indicate secondary data set…
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Cohesity – Stopping Secondary Storage Sprawl
Tagged with: Big data, Cohesity, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HDD, Metadata, SSD, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Data as a Supply Chain – SANS Technology
All data has a lifecycle or supply chain attached to it, and storage systems need to respond differently to data as it moves through each link in this chain. The problem is that most data centers treat all data the same,…
Tagged with: Data Protection, DRaaS, FC, file sync and share, Hyper-converged, ISCSI, NAS, Replication, SAN, SANS Technology
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: Cleaning up the SDS Mess – Four Keys to Success
Is Software Defined Storage (SDS) getting hijacked? It seems every vendor, old and new, is claiming that their storage is “software defined”. In our on demand webinar listen as experts from Storage Switzerland and Nexenta provide guidance to sorting out…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
The Benefits of a Cloud Integrated Hyper-converged Architecture
Hyper-converged architectures (HCA) consolidate compute, storage and networking onto a single server and then through software, aggregate these servers, creating a shared pool of resources. These resources can then be allocated to virtual machines (VMs) based on their performance and…
Product Analysis: Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliance
Asigra Cloud Backup is a robust, multi-tenant data protection offering built exclusively for Managed Service Providers. For almost three decades, the solution has enabled MSPs to provide enterprise class backup and recovery services to their customers worldwide. But the infrastructure…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, MSP, RTO, VM
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Flash + Object – The Emergence of a Two Tier Enterprise
For as long as there has been data there has been a quest to consolidate that data onto a single, consolidated storage system, but that quest seems to never be satisfied. The problem is that there are essentially two types…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloudian, Flash, Flash Array, Internet of Things, IOPS, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, Snapshot, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Software Defined Storage needs Automation and Orchestration
Software Defined Storage (SDS) provides the ability for multiple storage hardware elements to be managed through software, enabling a data center to have a common interface to pool, provision and protect storage assets across vendor platforms. This basic abstraction is a…
Beat a 4 Hour RPO-RTO Without Breaking the Bank
The Recovery Gap Storage Switzerland’s latest webinar, now available on demand, discussed ways that IT professionals could create the “Always-on Data Center”. In that webinar we asked a polling question that had surprising results. Over 89% of the attendees could…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, File Virtualization, Recovery in Place, RPO, Veeam, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
ChalkTalk Video: Must Haves for Next Generation Software Defined Storage
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the data center and holds great promise as organizations try to meet the performance demands of applications and users while driving down storage management costs. But the current generation of SDS needs to…
Exclusive Paper: Ready for the Next Generation of Software Defined Storage?
The first generation of Software Defined Storage (SDS 1.0) was an important step forward for storage management, as it opened up choice within the data center while bringing some semblance of centralized management. SDS 2.0 takes the next step by…
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