Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
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The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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File Sync and Share As An Endpoint Protection Service
How To Backup And Protect Data In A Mobile World According to MarketWatch, approximately every 3.5 seconds someone in America loses a cell phone. Similarly, other end-user edge devices like laptops and tablets are also prone to loss or theft…
Tagged with: Data Encryption, Data Protection, File Share, File Sync, Sync, Syncplicity
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Is it Time to Stop Worrying about Flash Wear Out?
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
Tagged with: Controller, Flash, Flash Wear, HDD, Micron, NAND, SSD, Total Bytes Written
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Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Tagged with: Cache, Cache Acceleration, Density, DRAM, Hypervisor, Intel, NAS, performance, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video: Server-side Flash Types and Use Cases
Putting flash in the application server is becoming the performance solution of choice, but how do you choose which type of flash to use? Let’s start by taking a look at the different types of SSDs available for use in…
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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EMCworld: Integrating old and new technologies – Podcast
Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and I talk about all of the one-on-one meetings George had with EMC officials at EMCworld 2014 in Las Vegas. And one of the things we talked about is EMC’s ability combine technologies seamlessly.
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VDI Storage Should Do More than Just VDI
What do companies expect from a VDI project? In the long run they expect more flexible device deployment, lower desktop support costs, and better protection from device and data loss. But short term, a VDI deployment can’t make things worse…
How To Get Out Of the Storage Hardware Buying Game
For many organizations the time may finally be right for getting out of the storage hardware buying game. The idea of consuming storage as a utility is nothing new. In fact, the premise of utility based storage was brought to…
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