The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…
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Avoid MSP Backup Sprawl: Less is More in the Cloud
Outsourcing backup remains one of the most popular ways for businesses to embrace cloud related services. In fact, many managed services providers (MSPs) and value added resellers (VARs) have forged their initial entry into the cloud through cloud backup offerings.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Intronis, Microsoft Windows, Remote backup service, Site Management, Windows
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Developing a Service Oriented Approach to Data Protection
There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…
Tagged with: Backup, Dell, High Availability, Incremental backup, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows
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Can Tape Save Cloud Storage?
“Cloud Storage” – the term invokes a vision of an infinitely scalable disk storage system assembled from commodity hardware that can provide near-instant access to the data it stores. There are two problems with this concept of cloud storage ‘nirvana’.…
Tagged with: Cloud storage, Disk storage, Hardware, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, Tape library
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Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it
olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…
Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs
Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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Using All-Flash Arrays To Solve Tier-1 Database Problems
To solve tier-1 database performance problems, it is important to understand the nature of tier-1 applications. Standard definitions of tier-1 include: (i) extremely high cost, extremely high performance applications – sometimes referred to as “tier-0” (e.g., Wall Street trading platforms)…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Hard disk drive, High Availability, RAID
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What Are Integrated Backup Appliances?
A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which…
The ROI of Server-Side Caching
Implementing server-side caching with the right solid state disk (SSD) can be like conducting a ‘surgical strike’ on storage performance problems. Installing this combination of hardware and software can eliminate the storage roadblock to increased transactions per second, while not…
Tagged with: Cache, Hard disk drive, PCI, RAID, SanDisk, Servers, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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Rationalizing Backup Licensing Strategies
The backup process has a myriad of costs associated with them. There is the obvious cost of the hardware – backup servers, backup storage and network infrastructure. There is also the cost of operations to manage the backup process. One…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud computing, Linux, Storage Switzerland, VMware, Windows
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