IT Cloak and Dagger With the advent of cloud computing, all it takes is the swipe of a credit card to instantly get more storage capacity. Likewise, some users may just opt to purchase their own physical storage and keep…
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The three requirements of the modern Storage Network
The storage network has new requirements being placed on it so it can keep pace with the modern data center. The first cause of change is being driven by virtualization, both server and desktop. We have the compute power and…
Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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Making Virtual Server Recovery-In-Place Viable
Backup technology for virtualized environments has become increasingly more advanced. Many organizations have implemented backup applications which are specifically designed to efficiently backup data in a virtualized environment without causing any disruption to application performance. In addition, some backup applications,…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Hybrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server
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Hybrid Cloud Storage for the SMB
It’s time for the SMB data center to come out of the closet. For far too long, many small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have operated their IT infrastructures on shoestring budgets by resorting to consumer grade systems, like laptops and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data deduplication, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, SMB, storage efficiency, Western Digital
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Avere Cloud NAS Product Summary
IT organizations have been continually asked to do more with less, but how do you squeeze blood out of a stone? With soaring data growth rates and more demands being placed on existing storage assets by data intensive systems like…
Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl
Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
How a NAS can be the IT Upgrade an SMB Needs
When a small company is in a business that leverages online interactions with their customers they’re committing themselves to providing the kind of uptime, accuracy and responsiveness that the general public is used to. For many small to medium-sized businesses…
Automated Virtual Machine Data Recovery
Veeam Provides Sneak Peek Into Version 8 Protecting data via point-in-time snapshots may be easy to setup and configure but performing a VM based recovery off this data is typically layered with lots of manual and time consuming steps. Not…
Tagged with: Data recovery, LUN, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, Service Level Objective, SLO, Snapshot, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Securing Business Data In The Wild
Recently I sat down with Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst at Storage Switzerland for a podcast on File Sync and Share Solutions; “Is File Sync & Share Broken?”. Charlie: You have a new article on storageswiss.com, “What’s Wrong with File Sync…
The Right Way for SMBs to Get into the Cloud
Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The cloud is an attractive option for small to medium-sized businesses because it allows a company…
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