When IT professionals think of data protection, they think of protecting that data from accidental deletion or catastrophic loss from a disk array failure. The goal of the data protection process is to maintain access to data when these events…
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Hybrid Cloud Backup 2.0
Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
Analyst Blog: The Flash Performance Euphoria is OVER
At Storage Switzerland we have written up more than a few case studies about all-flash arrays. As IT professionals have successfully moved from hard disk based arrays to all-flash arrays, the results are predictable; there is euphoria over the improvement in…
Is it Time to Kill the Solid-State Arrays Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its 2015 Magic Quadrants for General-Purpose Disk Arrays and another one for Solid-State Arrays. Over the next few weeks we will provide our analysis of these two charts, but first we need to discuss why there are…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Disk array, Flash, General-purpose, Hard disk, Hybrid array, Solid State, SSD
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Backup is not Archive
In order to protect their data while dealing with explosive data growth, many organizations have started backing up their data to the cloud in an effort to reduce their storage and data center costs as well as obtaining data redundancy…
The Problems with Cloud DR
The Disaster Recovery (DR) stakes are higher than ever. No longer is being able to recover “eventually” an acceptable strategy. Users and application owners at organizations of all sizes are expecting to be back online within hours, no matter how…
Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Future Proofing the Storage Reseller
Storage resellers are in a precarious situation. They have to differentiate not only themselves from other storage resellers theyat have to differentiate themselves from storage manufacturers that are often tempted to have a direct relationship with the reseller’s customers. On…
What’s better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data?
The low upfront cost of cloud storage has great appeal. Almost any organization can purchase 100TB of storage instantly and only make the initial payment (month, quarter, and year). However, there is a problem with cloud storage that most cloud…
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
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