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Briefing Note: DataGravity – Intelligent Primary Storage

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

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?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on January 21, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

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?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on January 19, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…

Tagged with: Big data, Business Analytics, Data Protection, High Capacity, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Panasas, Reliability, SATA, Scale-Out, SSD, Unstructured data
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In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…

Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Unitrends delivers Flash in a Backup Appliance

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Dedicated backup appliances have become a very popular method for deploying data protection software. They significantly reduce implementation time and greatly streamline ongoing support. But backup appliances face a challenge; everything around them is getting bigger and faster. Making sure…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Flash, Metadata, Recovery, Solid State Disk, Unitrends, Virtual machine
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