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…
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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…
Dell Buys EMC – Can 2+2=6?
As I mentioned in my previous blog about the IBM-Cleversafe deal, the goal of any technology buyout or merger is to make the combined entities more valuable than they were prior to the acquisition. At Storage Switzerland, we refer to…
What Killed Archive?
The case for implementing an archive strategy is impressive, move the inactive 80% of data that hasn’t been accessed in the last year off of production storage to an archive store. An archive solution is less expensive, requires less power,…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Complexity, Crossroads, Data Preservation, Fujifilm, Migration
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Too much of a Good Thing? IBM Buys Cleversafe
The industry is mesmerized by all things flash and sometimes forgets that IT professionals have other challenges to face than just meeting the performance demands of the modern data center. One of those is dealing with unstructured data. Data centers…
Video: What happens at the Backup 2.0 Workshop?
In this video, we get an example of the in the trenches, real world training provided at the Storage Decisions / TechTarget Backup 2.0 Workshop featuring Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump. Watch this interactive, vendor agnostic, deep…
Is your Storage ready for Production Docker Containers?
In a recent StorageSwiss survey, 40% of respondents indicated that they were interested in deploying Docker into production, as a compliment or potentially as an alternative to VMware. Docker containers are resource efficient and extremely flexible, which have lead to its…
Tagged with: Docker, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Replication, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
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Are you paying too much for DR Storage?
We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions…
For MSPs Cloud Backup is all about Adding Value
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) offering data protection as a service is an alluring option. Most end-user organizations would love to get rid of the backup headache. Unless regularly monitored, data protection is prone to…
The Modern Data Center is an HPC Environment
In the last few months, I’ve heard several Fortune 100 company CEOs claim that they are software companies first, manufacturers of products second. These CEOs are not from high-tech startups, instead most of them are makers of everyday items like…
