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…
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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…
Securing Hybrid Cloud Storage From Big Brother
During a recent webinar that Storage Switzerland held with Avere Systems, the audience was asked what their top concerns were when using cloud storage. Not surprisingly, the majority of the respondents stated “performance” and “security”. In fact, anecdotally we have…
File Storage vs Object Storage?
The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Replication, File Storage, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Object, Object Storage
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EMC World 2014 – “Redefine”
During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space…
The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use
It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Next Generation, NGDC, performance, Scalability, SolidFire, Thin provisioning
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Flash Wear and How it Impacts SSD Choice
Watch Now On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” to get an exclusive white paper Everything we use wears out and eventually falls apart, especially in mechanical systems like hard disk drives (HDDs). These marvels of modern…
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