Almost every laptop I see has Dropbox installed on it. It’s easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and works 99% of the time. Users love it, but Dropbox does have its problems. First, it removes data out from under the control…
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How to Beat Dropbox
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Dropbox, Enterprise, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Protection
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Orchestrating Copy Data
2015 will be THE year of copy data management. Multiple vendors will bring solutions to the market. Many of these solutions will leverage snapshot technology in one form or another in an effort to reduce the capacity requirements of secondary…
Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev, Virtual machine
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Analyst Blog: Should Enterprises replace NAS with Object Storage?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) has served the enterprise data center for well over two decades. Originally designed for storing user home directories, these systems have evolved to handle a wide variety of data sets including databases and virtual machine images.…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, Internet of Things, IoT, NAS, Network-attached storage, Object, Object Storage, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: DH2i Brings Containers to Windows Server
Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…
Tagged with: Cloud, DH2i, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, MS-SQL, ROI, SQL, Virtualization, VMware
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Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution
If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015
Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid Cloud, Service Level Objective, SLO, Storage Decisions, TechTarget, Test/Dev
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Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015
Storage Switzerland held a well-attended webinar with Tegile called “The State of Flash in 2015”. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and Tegile System’s Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat review some follow-up questions to the webinar. Question 1: “What is the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, performance, Software Defined, Tegile
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Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations
As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…
Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems
Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…
Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
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What’s causing the Copy Data Explosion
Remember back when companies had copy machines in every department? Making copies was a tedious exercise that probably wasted more paper than anything else. But for the IT department, creating copies (data copies) is a far more serious problem, one…
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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