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Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Posted on October 8, 2014 by George Crump

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data…

Tagged with: Cloud, CSP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, MSP, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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Reader Question: Is Object Storage for Normal Data Centers?

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

One of the things I like about participating on the forums on Spiceworks is I get great, raw questions. One came in this week during a discussion around object storage. “I’d like to consider myself reasonably clued up, but I…

Tagged with: Capacity, NAS, Object, Object Storage, RAID, RESTful interface, Storage
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Low cost Cloud Backup and High Availability

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Is high availability an affordable option for small to medium sized businesses? Many large enterprise data center environments utilize server clustering and replication technology to protect their critical business systems from disruptive outages. And while these solutions can provide the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Is Dedupe Overrated?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Eric Slack

Advanced data reduction technologies are central to the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market segment. They shrink the amount of data that’s actually committed to storage and help make these relatively fixed capacity devices feasible. But data reduction only provides…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Recovery, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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StorPool – A Toolkit for Cloud Application Providers

Posted on October 3, 2014 by George Crump

StorPool is a software defined storage solution targeted at cloud application and infrastructure providers. The software runs on a cluster of commodity servers, aggregating the internal storage of those servers into a shared volume. The solution, for now, is only…

Is Convergence the next wave of Virtualization?

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Colm Keegan

What is the next wave of virtualization? Now that many businesses have consolidated their server infrastructure, a potential next logical course is to find ways to simplify the management of other resources in the data center like storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Seagate’s Kinetic Drives improve Cloud Storage TCO and Performance

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

In an earlier column we talked about the world’s insatiable appetite for storage and the gap between projected demand and supply of that capacity. In response to this demand disk drive companies are thinking beyond the drive, to the array…

Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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ExaGrid and Veeam team up

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Recently Veeam and ExaGrid teamed up to create a joint solution that should make the jobs of virtual administrators easier by allowing them to tap into the full capabilities of Veeam without impacting backup performance. Veeam backup and replication brings…

Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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Seagate plans 20TB Hard Drives… but we’ll still need more!

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

At their second Industry Analyst Cloud Summit in San Francisco last week, Seagate shared some information that we’ve heard many times: the amount of data being created is almost incomprehensible. But they said something that many probably haven’t heard before:…

Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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Can NAS handle a dense VM Environment?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have traditionally been used for the storing of unstructured data. As these systems have increased in performance and capabilities they are being used more and more for non-traditional NAS workloads, like databases and virtualization. While…