In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in both the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers at a…
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Webinar – Set Your Storage Budget Free – Breaking Out Of NetApp Capacity Jail
Adding capacity to a NetApp NAS system is easy, but “easy” comes at a premium price. Addressing the growth of unstructured data by growing your NetApp systems will lead you to be locked into a never ending stream of additional…
Panel Discussion: Maximum VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking and Operational Transparency
The key to maximum and sustainable return on investment (ROI) of a virtual infrastructure is to achieve the highest possible virtual machine (VM) density per physical server host. The problem is that the more densely populated a physical server is…
Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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Webinar – Should Your Storage Be Virtualized, Software Defined or None of the Above?
Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
Tagged with: File Share, Replication, SDS, server-side storage, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Hybrid Cloud Now – Practical Strategies For Integrating Primary Storage with Cloud Storage
In the traditional data center, leveraging the cloud for anything more than backup seems like a futuristic pipe dream. While some data centers may be using a cloud service for backups and potentially disaster recovery, the thought of using the…
Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Cloud Gateway, Cloud NAS, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Scalability
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The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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Webinar – The Four NEW Requirements of Backup Disk For Veeam Success
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup solutions change the game when it comes to data protection. They provide the capability to backup virtual machines rapidly and repeatedly, thanks to change block backups. Second, they provide the ability to recover virtual…
Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Recovery, SSD, Veeam, Virtualization, Webinar
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ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem
Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, CrossRoads Systems, Data Protection, Disk, Storage Switzerland, Tape
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CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP
Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…
Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape
The cost of disk capacity has come down dramatically over the last two decades and, thanks to technologies like scale-out NAS and object storage, the ability to manage petabytes of data is certainly a possibility. But the cost to power…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, CIFS, Compression, Crossroads, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk, NAS, NFS
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