In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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Virtualized Cloud Backup for Anything
Many technology companies talk a good game about providing their customers with choice, but few actually deliver on it. Public, private and hybrid cloud backup solution provider, Infrascale’s offering was built from the ground up with customer choice and hybrid…
Tagged with: Backup, Backup to the Cloud, Cloud, Compression, D2D, D2D2C, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Disk-to-Disk, Hybrid, Infrascale
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Tegile Provides More Flash Options
Tegile recently announced two new members of its product family and an update to its software that promises to get more data centers taking their first significant flash step. This announcement addresses two challenges head-on that Storage Switzerland sees facing…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Is Druva’s Phoenix the next step in Mid-market Cloud Backup?
Druva is a market leader in end-point data protection with over 3000 customers in 70 countries. They see cloud backup approaching a ‘tipping point’ which could enable it to become a de facto standard in the backup industry, especially if…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, D2D2C, Data Protection, Data Retention, Data security, Deduplication, Druva, Latency, Metadata
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Analyst Blog: The Data Protection Network Gap
Storage Switzerland has been tracking an interesting trend, or maybe lack of a trend, in data protection over the last 10 months; the decay in the quality of the data protection network as compared to the continual improvement of the…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Change Block Tracking, Data Protection, Hyper-V, Oracle, Recovery, SQL
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Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost
Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…
Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud
Cloud computing and cloud storage certainly get a lot of headlines but how many IT departments are actually using the cloud in any serious, strategic manner. While most surveys of actual cloud usage are quite high per organization, these surveys…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cloud computing, Cloud DR, Cloud Provider, Infrastructure
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WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage
Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
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SolidFire lowers Entry Point for Cloud-scale, All-flash Arrays
SolidFire is the all-flash array manufacturer that came to market with a scale-out storage system tailored for large-scale multi-tenant environments. These systems offered guaranteed performance, high availability, automated management and a strong efficiency story, based on the advantages that all-flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Capacity, Cloud, Infrastructure, IOPS, Multi-Tenant, Scalability, Scale-Out, SolidFire, SSD
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Are you Virtualizing your Applications or your Data Center?
Many data centers are now more than 50% virtualized, but most of this virtualization has been application focused leading to silos of virtualization. As a result, each environment (MS-SQL, Exchange, VDI) gets its own storage, compute and network. This process…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
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