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Orchestrating Copy Data

Posted on February 16, 2015 by George Crump

2015 will be THE year of copy data management. Multiple vendors will bring solutions to the market. Many of these solutions will leverage snapshot technology in one form or another in an effort to reduce the capacity requirements of secondary…

Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev, Virtual machine
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How Cloud can enable the All-Flash Data Center

Posted on February 5, 2015 by George Crump

It’s been said that, given the choice, every data center would choose to be all-flash. This is because access to near limitless performance not only increases application scale it also simplifies many day-to-day storage management tasks. This potential has led…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disk, Flash, Hybrid
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A Big Data Center without White Boxes – Storage in the Large Financial Enterprise

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Eric Slack

Google, FaceBook and many of the largest web-scale companies have made the use of commodity, ‘white box’ storage systems seem like the standard practice for large enterprises. Not so. Storage Switzerland recently spoke with a global financial institution about how…

Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Efficiency, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, Real Time, Scale Up, Tier-1
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The Value of an Independent Storage Performance Testing Platform

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

The more virtual machines per host, or users per application, the more cost effective an environment becomes. And the more environments that can be supported by a single storage system the more cost effective the storage infrastructure becomes. But increased…

Tagged with: I/O, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance, Storage, Testing Platform, Virtual machine
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Cloud Backups – Purpose Built vs. Public Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

Leveraging the cloud as part of the data protection process is increasing in popularity, and with that popularity come a lot of options for IT planners to sift through. One area of consideration is the cloud destination. There is a…

The State of Deduplication in 2015

Posted on January 26, 2015 by George Crump

At its core, deduplication is an enabling technology. First, it enabled disk based backup devices to become the primary backup target in the data center. Now it promises to enable the all-flash data center by driving down the cost of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, Replication, Retroactive Deduplication, Snapshots, Tiering
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OpenStack Swift – Should Enterprise Customers DIY or use SwiftStack?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

The amount of storage being generated everyday by enterprises is growing rapidly, with no sign of slowing down. Enterprise IT is now faced with the challenge of storing and managing this data in a world where IT budgets are stagnant…

Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Integration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStack, TCO
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Can the Cloud consolidate the Backup of Endpoints, Laptops and Servers?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Data Protection, Hybrid, Infrascale, Infrastructure, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SME, Virtualization
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How Object Storage can improve Hadoop

Posted on January 15, 2015 by George Crump

When organizations begin to explore a Hadoop initiative their goal is to create an environment that can help them make better decisions. The more data that the Hadoop environment has access to and the faster that data can be processed,…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDFS, Infrastructure, Metadata, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out
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The difference between Retroactive Deduplication and Software Defined Storage

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

Short of buying a new storage system with storage efficiency (deduplication and compression) built in, it is difficult to add the technology to an existing storage array. Today there are two ways to accomplish this. First, you can wait for…