In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…
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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight
An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…
Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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The difference between Retroactive Deduplication and Software Defined Storage
Short of buying a new storage system with storage efficiency (deduplication and compression) built in, it is difficult to add the technology to an existing storage array. Today there are two ways to accomplish this. First, you can wait for…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HDD, Permabit, Purpose Built, Retroactive Deduplication, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management
The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…
Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?
The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release
There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…
Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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Does Replication equal DR Readiness?
In our recent webinar, “Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments”, a majority of attendees indicated that replication was their sole method of providing high availability and protecting from disaster. While copying data to a secondary storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
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Business Outcome Driven Storage
The new mantra for IT is to focus the technology and services their data centers provide on business outcomes. That concept seems more easily applied to front-line and customer-facing applications, like customer relationship management, decision support and Web servers that…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDS, Hierarchical Storage Management, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, ILM, Information Lifecycle Management, NAND, NVM, performance, SSD, Virtual machine
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The role of Tape in Primary Storage Data Protection
Recently I discussed how primary storage, thanks to the use of replication and snapshots, can take a larger role in the data protection and application recovery process. We call this the “Primary Storage Data Protection Strategy”. But, to be effective,…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Primary Storage, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots, Tape
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