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Analyst Blog: What are Converged Infrastructures? Part 1 – Hardware Convergence

Posted on December 12, 2014 by George Crump

Every so often it makes sense to take a step back and attempt to define the terms that we in the industry use to describe the approaches we take to solving customer problems. One of those is “converged architectures”. When…

Tagged with: Converged Infrastructure, Convergence, Flash, Hyper-converged, Integration, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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News Analysis: Datto buys Backupify for complete Cloud Protection

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

Acquisitions are a common occurrence in the IT market. Most are predictable, but every so often one takes us off-guard. Datto’s acquisition of Backupify falls into that category. But even more rare is this acquisition actually makes sense. Datto is…

Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Managing Snapshots as part of the Data Protection Process

Posted on December 11, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Three Steps to Backup and Recovery Success”, we discussed service level objectives (SLOs) and how to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). Snapshots can play a key role in meeting tight RPOs…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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How to get Facebook-Like Application Availability

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are under pressure to deliver an always on experience to their users. In the Facebook and Google era, internal and external customers expect critical business applications to be available at all times. This means that planned or unplanned…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
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Analyst Opinion: Two Backup Trends for 2015

Posted on December 8, 2014 by George Crump

Users are demanding more their backup applications than ever before. Faster backups, longer retention and rapid recovery are now an expectation instead of a request. 2015 promises more of the same demands but worse, even faster backups, maybe continuous backup,…

Tagged with: backup application, Copy Data, Data Protection, Opinion, Recovery, Retention, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, TechTarget
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Storage Opinion: Storage Evolves thanks to the Processor not the Business Model

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Robin Harris over at Storage Mojo recently wrote about the future of legacy storage vendors in the face of low-margin commodity hardware and a primal force in their industry – the cloud. He cites the fate of the minicomputer and…

Tagged with: Commodity Hardware, Density, Opinion, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Scale Up, Software Defined
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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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Backup 2.0 – How Primary Storage, Backup Software and Backup Hardware are solving data protection challenges

Posted on December 3, 2014 by George Crump

Data protection is more than just backup and backup is more that just moving data from point A to point B. Data centers need to design a layered data protection strategy that allows them to meet a wide variety of…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, RAID, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Deduplication makes Hybrid Arrays more predictable

Posted on December 2, 2014 by George Crump

Hybrid arrays, arrays that mix flash and hard drives in order to strike a balance between dollar per GB and dollar per IOP, typically cause one common point of concern for IT planners; Predictably. One of the key ways to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Why Business-Defined IT may well Define IT in 2015

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the IT trends that we see coming in 2015 is something called “Business-Defined IT”. This is essentially a focus for IT on collaborating with internal business entities and providing business services rather than just building and running infrastructure.…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Business-Defined IT, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Trends
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