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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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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…

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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?…

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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…

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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…

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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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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. The Enterprise

Watch our On Demand webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper One of the key data points coming out of EMC World 2014 last week was that the adoption of the “cloud”,…

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The Easy Button for Hybrid Cloud Storage

Watch the On Demand Webinr “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper Various industry sources estimate that upwards of 70% of business computing and storage will remain in private data centers for the…

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The EMC, VMware and Pivotal Federation

One of the major themes here at EMC World 2014 is the “Federated” platform. In essence, this refers to the collaboration and partnership for delivering a totally integrated next generation hybrid cloud computing (or in EMC’s parlance – 3rd platform)…

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VSPEX Enabled WAN Acceleration

Next up at EMC World we caught up with Tony Thompson and Everett Dolgner from Silver Peak. Our readers will be familiar with the fact that Silver Peak has been on the leading edge of providing software-defined WAN acceleration technology…

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