How can regional Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) more effectively compete with behemoths like Amazon, Google and Microsoft? Cloud backup software manufacturer Asigra is taking a two-pronged approach, which they claim will help level the playing field for these small to…
It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data repositories that are well in excess of this heady…
In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers need while being…
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
Today, many organizations are considering Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform as an alternative to market behemoth, VMware. But the key to fully delivering on the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) value proposition that Hyper-V offers, is commoditizing the storage infrastructure…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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