Welcome to the new world of storage technology evaluation. IT planners are being overwhelmed with new storage solutions to help them solve old problems. Most of these solutions leverage flash memory to help them address challenges like randomized I/O, scale…
There is no question that there’s a lot of innovation when it comes to backing up the virtualized environment; but how do you protect the non-virtualized environment? A question we constantly ask IT professionals is “How virtualized are you?” —…
The FaceBook generation was on our minds at Dell World 2014. These are working professionals, typically under the age of 40, that expect/demand their IT services to be always on. The challenge the IT professional may be facing is, they don’t…
When calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a storage system one often overlooked component is the software licensing. Even if the software is “free” it has to be repurchased every time the storage hardware is upgraded. At Dell…
Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…
Hybrid All-Flash Arrays drive down cost by mixing high performance flash with cost effective hard disk drives (HDD). Establishing predictable performance is the chief concern for Hybrid Array buyers. As long as data is being accessed from the flash tier,…
Backup vendors and integrators have long tried to get organizations to set and maintain service level agreements (SLA) for various processes in their data centers including data protection. Creating SLAs for any process is a painstaking process, for data protection…
One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price…
While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…
Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…
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