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…
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ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem
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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Enterprise Backup For The Next Generation Data Center
The Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) must contend with massive growth, not only in data capacity, but also in data criticality. Data in the NGDC must be protected and available in case something goes wrong. At the same time, IT…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dell, Enterprise, Metadata, Next Generation, NGDC, Scalability
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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. The Enterprise
Watch our On Demand webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper One of the key data points coming out of EMC World 2014 last week was that the adoption of the “cloud”,…
EMC World Report – Can EMC Beat Google And Amazon With ECS?
At EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, EMC Cloud Strategy continued to take shape. EMC, at least at this point, wants to be the arms merchant to the cloud provider market, enabling cloud providers and large enterprises to either compete…
The 3 Problems With Adding Capacity To Your NAS – And How To Solve Them
Disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have become the workhorse of the data center. These systems are the first responders to the rampant growth of unstructured data facing organizations of all sizes. As a result, these organizations need to…
Tagged with: Capacity, Crossroads, Data Protection, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, NAS, Virtualize
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Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be More than a NAS
Watch the On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons Why an SMB’s First Server Should Be More Than a NAS” to get an exclusive white paper. Small to Medium-sized Business (SMB) owners face some unique challenges regarding IT. They understand the value…
SlideShare – Are File Servers Holding Users Back? – How To Increase User Productivty While Improving Data Security
This SlideShare covers the importance of business class file sync, share and collaborate and why the storage team should lead the effort. The on-demand webinar features audio from George Crump, Founder and Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Soonr’s VP…
Are File Servers Holding Users Back?
Traditional file servers have served end-users well. Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems, which replaced file servers, took it a further step by allowing IT to provide the storage and share service without the burden of too much storage administration. But…
