At its core, deduplication is an enabling technology. First, it enabled disk based backup devices to become the primary backup target in the data center. Now it promises to enable the all-flash data center by driving down the cost of…
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The State of Deduplication in 2015
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, Replication, Retroactive Deduplication, Snapshots, Tiering
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Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality
Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?
Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: DataGravity – Intelligent Primary Storage
There is no question that data centers need to provide faster access to ever increasing volumes of data, and do so at increasingly lower price points. To accomplish this storage vendors are focused on integrating flash based storage as well…
Tagged with: Caching, Compression, Data Intelligence, Data Protection, DataGravity, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HSM, ILM, Tiering
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Webinar: How Snapshots CAN be Backups
Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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OpenStack Swift – Should Enterprise Customers DIY or use SwiftStack?
The amount of storage being generated everyday by enterprises is growing rapidly, with no sign of slowing down. Enterprise IT is now faced with the challenge of storing and managing this data in a world where IT budgets are stagnant…
Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Integration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStack, TCO
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Niche section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
In my last three columns I have analyzed the Leader, Visionary, and Challenger sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this column we will take a look at the most confusing part of the Gartner chart, the Niche section. Section…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Gartner, Hardware, Opinion, Primary Storage, SDS, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Webinar: 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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Can the Cloud consolidate the Backup of Endpoints, Laptops and Servers?
Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Data Protection, Hybrid, Infrascale, Infrastructure, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SME, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: The Next Generation Data Center demands SDS 2.0
The next generation data center requires a fundamental change in the way we implement and manage storage. IT professionals who are trying to implement these various changes have two basic options: Clean Slate or Augment. The problem is that both…
Tagged with: Availability, Data integrity, Infrastructure, ioFABRIC, Next Generation Data Center, performance, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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