As the repository of last resort, backups are unique. They essentially store every piece of data in the company, at least all the data that’s worth saving. In order to do this, modern backup systems, which are often disk-based appliances,…
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Why HGST is now building Storage Systems
Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…
Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo
At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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Exclusive Report: Virtualization made simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
The below is an excerpt from our exclusive report, “Virtualization Made Simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure“. This paper is sent immediately to anyone that registers for our live or on-demand webinar that will cover how organizations with limited IT personnel can…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtualization
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How to lower Storage TCO through Object Storage
Networked Attached Storage is broken. Business data is increasing at an alarming pace but traditional “scale-up” NAS architectures can’t scale to meet this demand. As a result, organizations are often forced into time consuming and expensive fork-lift upgrades. To learn…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption
One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disk array, Integration, Next Generation Storage Summit, Object Storage, Object Storage Alliance Group, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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HGST announces 10TB HDD, ‘Flash Fabric’, NVMe SSDs, Archive Platform
At HGST’s Analyst’s Day in San Francisco this week the company announced several new storage products including a 10 TB drive that uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology in conjunction with the company’s Helium (He) technology platform, plus an 8TB…
IT-Less Backup? Can the Cloud save the business?
Most business owners don’t worry about data backup or recovery. But when a critical application becomes unavailable or worse, when the business loses data they panic. Data protection becomes a high priority and a cloud based backup solution seems like…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Free Disk? No Thanks
This morning I am flying to New York City to attend Fujifilm’s 6th Annual Global IT Executive Summit. The theme of this year’s event is, “into Tomorrow with Tape Technology, Preserving and Protecting Critical Data”. This is a data protection…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Data Retention, Fujifilm, Recovery, Tape, Unstructured data
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DRaaS requires new questions
In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Software as a service
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