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…
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Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape
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…
How IT Can Remain Relevant In A Cloud World
How will cloud computing alter the role of today’s IT professional? Will IT as we know it disappear altogether or will IT pros remain in high demand with increased cloud adoption? To be sure, cloud computing is fundamentally changing how…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, CSP, Efficiency, HotLink, Hybrid, Load DynamiX, SaaS, SLA, Spanning Tree
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The 3 Problems With Adding Capacity To Your NAS – And How To Solve Them
Disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have become the workhorse of the data center. These systems are the first responders to the rampant growth of unstructured data facing organizations of all sizes. As a result, these organizations need to…
Tagged with: Capacity, Crossroads, Data Protection, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, NAS, Virtualize
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Decision Criteria for Purchasing Storage Acceleration Software
Virtualization creates a variety of unique factors that cause storage bottlenecks. An increase in application density, coupled with high volumes of randomized read and write requests, for example, place an increased burden on shared storage resources that ultimately has an…
Tagged with: Hypervisor, Latency, PernixData, RAM, Storage Acceleration, Virtual machine
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What Is The Data Protection Continuum?
In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protection, EMC, NAS, Protection, SAN, Shared Backup, Software Defined
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Rethinking Enterprise Storage
With soaring data growth occurring across all industries, IT planners need to rethink how they design and implement enterprise storage technology. Traditional NAS and SAN platforms have served as the bulwark of data center storage capacity for decades, however, storing…
Tagged with: Cloudian, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage, Storage-As-A-Service
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