In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
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Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Analyst Blog: Is that all you got? Are All-Flash Arrays a one trick pony?
In a recent blog Tom Cook, CEO of Permabit declared that all-flash array vendors, which count on deduplication as their key advantage, are going to disappoint their investors or shareholders. His confidence comes from the rapid adoption of Permabit’s deduplication…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, SSD
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Webinar: Using the Cloud to Create a Truly All-Flash Data Center
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly…
Briefing Note: Physical Servers Matter – Diskeeper keeps them running like new
While the move to a virtualized data center continues, physical servers still matter! Its true that many organizations are now approaching 60%+ virtualization, few have reached 100%. That means that most data centers are still 40% physical. Those remaining physical…
All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study
When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…
SlideShare – Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements
Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR
As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Drobo doubles down on SMB Data Centers
It’s been almost two years since Connected Data, the makers of the Transporter, acquired Drobo. In that time there has been some concern over the future of the Drobo product family. For the most part those concerns were ill founded.…
Tagged with: Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, mSATA, Reclamation, Shared, SSD, Thin provisioning, Veeam
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VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
Briefing Note: StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
For the last 60 days, Storage Switzerland has been putting StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 hard drive enclosure through its paces. So far we have found that it provides rock solid storage performance and capacity for a variety of use cases.…
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