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Analyst Opinion: Backup Terminology Matters

If technology vendors don’t agree on what generic industry terms mean, how in the world are customers supposed to compare similar products? Wait. Maybe that’s the plan. Consider the terms backup, archive, & continuous, for example. The terms backup and

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Barracuda Adds MSPs to its Portfolio

There are managed service providers that promise they can backup your data center for a few dollars a month. And for that cheap price, all the organization has to do is install a little piece of software, enter your credit

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Does Object Storage kill RAID?

Like a lot of technologies that are past their prime, RAID will continue to serve a function for a very long time. It’s an inexpensive way to string together multiple drives and protect yourself against the loss of one or

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Why Storage Switzerland

The news is out; I’m joining George Crump and the team at Storage Switzerland. If you know our history, that may leave some of you scratching your heads a bit. George and I don’t agree on much. In fact, when

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