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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Some corporate financial planners are pointing towards the use of hybrid cloud solutions as a way to reduce storage costs. The idea is to move redundant copies of information off expensive onsite primary storage to lower cost storage in the…

Tagged with: Backup, Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, Data OnTap, dev/ops, dr, Snapshot, Software Defined, Virtual
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Is Storage Management Overload making IT less relevant?

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…

Tagged with: Archive, Disaster recovery, Exablox, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Overload, Provisioning, Scale, Scale-Out
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A Hybrid NAS for Unstructured Data

Posted on November 11, 2014 by George Crump

There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.

Tagged with: CIFS, Crossroads, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid NAS, NAS, NFS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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What is the total cost of Storage testing?

Posted on November 6, 2014 by George Crump

Welcome to the new world of storage technology evaluation. IT planners are being overwhelmed with new storage solutions to help them solve old problems. Most of these solutions leverage flash memory to help them address challenges like randomized I/O, scale…

Tagged with: HBA, I/O, Infrastructure, IOPS, Load DynamiX, Provisioning, ROI, SLA, TCO, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Virtualization made simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Across many data center environments, business data and new applications are rapidly proliferating. In large part, server virtualization has contributed to this growth since it removes many of the logistical barriers for bringing new business systems online. And while there…

How File Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud can solve the Copy Data dilemma

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Colm Keegan

“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Storm, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, NAS, Nasuni, RPO, Security, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Cloud Integrated Backup and DR

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Colm Keegan

The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Latency, Recovery, Restoration, Storage
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Reducing Storage TCO with Private Cloud Storage

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Colm Keegan

With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…

Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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What is Copy Data?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.

Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup

Posted on September 29, 2014 by George Crump

For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…