One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and…
The foundational component of any data protection strategy is the backup process. It is the backup system’s responsibility to capture and secure data as it changes and then make sure that data can be recovered in a timely manner. But…
When an IT professional starts looking into solid state drives (SSDs) they quickly learn that flash is very different from magnetic disk drives. Flash employs a much more complex write and erase process than traditional hard disk drive (HDD) technology…
Caching is a popular first step when data centers want to leverage high performance flash storage. It eases the transition from traditional disk storage by automatically moving frequently accessed data to the high performance pool. Most cache technologies that have…
It comes as no surprise to any IT professional that unstructured user data is growing. What may surprise them is the rate at which that growth is occurring and the lengths of time that data needs to be retained. The…
Silos of storage within the storage environment are increasing at an alarming rate with each being dedicated to a specific task or workload. Why? The answer is simple: risk mitigation. The data center can’t afford to have applications experience unpredicted…
In late 2013, a new virus/malware appeared called CryptoLocker. What makes this malware unique is that its maker’s intention is to do more than just infect computers to see how much havoc they can wreak, this one actually wants to…
Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.
Hyper-converged Storage may be the purest form of the software defined storage (SDS) concept, as it runs storage services as a virtual machine within the customer infrastructure. This new take on storage architectures collapses the traditional compute, storage and networking…
While the cost of raw data storage keeps dropping, the cost of deleting obsolete or inappropriate data can be prohibitive. No one wants to delete the file that might be needed someday. This results in the accumulation of data that has both cost and compliance ramifications. The key is to lower that risk by identifying good candidates for deletion. In this article Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack details the cost associated with file deletion and how to lower them through comprehensive file analysis.
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