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Backing up the Agile Data Center

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?

Posted on October 14, 2014 by George Crump

IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among…

Tagged with: Backup, Converged Storage, Dell, Disaster recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Private Cloud Storage cost containment

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Removing the fuzzy math from VDI

Posted on October 9, 2014 by George Crump

One of the aspects of server virtualization that makes it so popular is the simplicity of the return on investment (ROI) calculation. An IT Manager can look at the reduction in physical servers, combined with the increase in application workload,…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, VDI, Virtual desktop
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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…