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.…
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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management
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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SlideShare – The Future of Enterprise Flash in 2015
TLC Flash, 3D NAND, NVM and Hybrid Memory Arrays are the four big changes coming to memory based storage in 2015 that enterprises need to be prepared for. The technologies promise to dramatically reduce the cost of flash storage while…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, DRAM, Hybrid Memory, NAND, Non-volatile memory, NVM, Tegile, TLC Flash
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Can All-Flash Eliminate IT Silos?
In a recent customer profile “All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study” Storage Switzerland did an extensive interview with CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments, systems processing, and data analytics. During that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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What impacts All-Flash Storage Performance
There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…
What is Hadoop and can Object Storage make it better?
Hadoop, first used by large cloud providers like Yahoo, Facebook and Google, is designed to allow massive amounts of compute resources to process very large, unstructured datasets. The technology is now firmly entrenched in government agencies and is now working…
