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Proof Point – Snapshots Replaces Backup – How One Customer Solved Their Company’s Backup Problems
Tagged with: Backup, Delaware, Incremental backup, Microsoft SQL Server, Nimble Storage, Snapshot, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Correcting EMC – Tape is More Innovative Than Disk
It happened again, another industry veteran has dismissed tape as an obsolete technology. This time it was an EMC executive responding to the tired question “is tape dead yet?”, posed in a recent TechTarget interview. His response was “There is…
Tagged with: EMC, Information technology, Linear Tape File System, LTO, SpectraLogic, Tape, Tape drive, TechTarget
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How Are You Guaranteeing Virtualized Application Performance?
Many organizations have adopted a virtualize-first policy, where all new applications brought online are considered for virtualized deployment prior to getting their own bare metal hardware. But there are typically a number of mission critical applications that are still not…
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, LUN, Quality of service, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?
All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?
As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…
Tagged with: Backup, backup system, Data Protection, Data recovery, Incremental backup, Nimble Storage, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…
Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
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Innovation plus Longevity Wins in the Web-scale Market
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) this year, someone brought up a blog I’d written after a previous AIS event where an LSI executive said they had a RAID stack that was 25 years old. What popped into my mind…
Tagged with: Flash memory controller, LSI, PCI Express, RAID, SandForce, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive
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VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related
A discussion about the storage infrastructure supporting virtual servers or virtual desktops almost always starts with a focus on performance. After all, solving the much talked about I/O Blender problem often takes center stage. But according to a poll conducted…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Information technology, Logical unit number, LUN, Tintri, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware
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Is Legacy Storage Cannibalizing Your Virtualization ROI?
Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst Server virtualization has delivered many benefits to the data center but one area that has become increasingly challenging is storage performance management. Legacy storage was designed to allocate disk resources from physical storage arrays to physical…
Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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