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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
