The problem with the public cloud has always been physics. We like the idea of being able to access our data anytime anywhere, but the reality often falls short. It takes a lot of horsepower to get data from point…
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How to Enable the Cloud to Master Physics – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Google, Hybrid, M&E, Replication, SwiftStack, Sync
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DR Ready Storage Must be Space Efficient
One of the biggest criticisms of using primary storage for DR is cost. Primary storage can be expensive, and using it in your DR plan essentially doubles your storage requirement. Therefore, it is essential that DR Ready storage use as…
Are Customers DRaaS Worries Justified?
The result of a survey about disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) during a recent webinar was very illuminating. In my opinion, it suggests most people responding to the survey had not yet actually tried such a service. First, let…
Are People Abandoning Backup for DR?
More and more customers are demanding storage that integrates data protection. This was incredibly evident in a recent poll during one of our live webinars. Backup is moving to the front of the bus! During our recent webinar, “Is Your…
Object Storage Maturing – Scality Briefing Note
When private cloud object storage vendors first started appearing on the market, many of them were missing many core features. Some did not have any concept of enterprise access control, encryption or versioning, while others did not have multi-region support.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, file sync and share, Object Storage, Scality
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What to expect from your VMware Storage
VMware changed the data center so much that it is hard to imagine a world without virtualization. One challenge for VMware customers (still) – as well as customers of other hypervisors – is storage technology hasn’t always kept pace with…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Fibre Channel, Hedvig, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Replication, SAS, SATA, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, VMware
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Do Data Centers have Boundaries Anymore? – CloudVelox Briefing Note
Sometimes you feel like a cloud. Sometimes you don’t. That’s the idea behind the boundary-less data center. Sometimes you want to run a workload in the public cloud and sometimes you want to run it on your hardware. A boundary-less…
It’s Important to get Hyper-V Backups Right
It’s very easy to find yourself far down the path of virtualization and forget something so trivial as backup. This is not a problem new to virtualization, as backup has often been on the sidelines in many people’s eyes. But…
The Importance of Application Aware Snapshots
An application aware snapshot is one that is taken with the knowledge of an application that is storing its data on the volume. If you need a primer on snapshots, please see our previous blog on the subject. The taking…
How Fast can you Recover in the Cloud?
Some say it’s possible to recover servers into the cloud so quickly – and perform in the cloud so well – no one will even notice that a recovery happened. But one should definitely not assume this will be the…
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