Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…
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Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dropbox, ExaGrid, Hardware, HP, Site Management, Storage
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The Future of Backup is an Architecture Not an Application
While the applications that protect data have vastly improved over the last 20 years, they still often struggle to keep up with the technical challenges of data growth, shrinking backup and recovery windows and demands for greater disaster resilience. At…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, EMC, Storage, Storage Switzerland, Top10-2013, Virtual machine
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The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage
Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…
Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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Are Flash Devices Putting Sensitive Data At Risk?
Flash based storage systems are now the “go to” option for improving the response time of performance sensitive applications. Some applications that require high performance are also storing extremely sensitive data that needs to be completely sanitized if the flash…
Bringing Cloud Storage to the Tier 2 Data Center
Unstructured data is file based data that is most commonly associated with user productivity applications like word processing, spreadsheets and presentation files. But unstructured data also includes rich media from training videos, photos, CAD-CAM drawings etc., plus the data created…
Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing
It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…
Server Side Caching vs. Raid Controller Caching
Caching is an ideal way to maximize an investment in solid state disk (SSD), especially in virtual environments where massively random I/O patterns are the norm. Caching provides an automated way to make sure that the most active data is…
Tagged with: Cache, Disk array controller, Intel, PCI Express, RAID, Servers, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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How NVDIMM Can Protect Flash SSD Appliances
As Storage Switzerland discussed in two articles recently flash based appliances are particularly vulnerable to power failures. This vulnerability is related to the way these appliances use DRAM to buffer writes and to store meta data tables. DRAM is volatile,…
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