The press releases are out there but they only cover the XtremIO announcement at a high level. It’s time for a deeper dive. At Dell EMC World, Storage Switzerland spent quality time on the XtremIO X2 update. It promises increased…
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Deep Dive XtremIO X2 – Dell EMC World 2017
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Flash, Latency, QOS, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, XtremIO
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Virtual Instruments – Realizing Full Value of Your EMC Storage Deployments
One request I never hear from IT professionals is give me more tools. They are inundated with tools from every vendor in their environment. Every component in the data center generates data about how it’s operating. The problem is none…
Dell EMC Delivers Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.1 for In-Cloud Data Protection
One of the first announcements out of the chute at Dell EMC World 2017 is an updated version of Data Domain’s Virtual Edition (DD VE). The new version runs in both Amazon and Azure clouds and is designed to provide…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Domain, Dell, EMC, Encryption, Flash, Replication, Software Defined
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How Does Your DRaaS Get Data to the Cloud?
A DRaaS solution can use several methods to get data to the provider, each method directly impacts RPO and RTO. IT needs to be very careful to select the right method to meet the organization’s objectives and budget. The primary…
Tintri Storage is DR Ready
In a recent article, my colleague George Crump discussed the need to simplify data protection (DP) and disaster recovery (DR) operations, with primary storage that is DR ready. DR ready primary storage would aid in DP and DR processes without…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DP, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, Scale-Out, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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What Does The Next Generation of DRaaS Look Like?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions are inundating the market. Most vendors added the feature to their existing solutions as an afterthought by including the cloud – not integrating it. But DRaaS is maturing and customers are looking for…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, performance, Quorum, Ransomware, Recovery
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What is Enterprise Data as a Service
The IT “as a service” model is working well for organizations. It enables them to start small and scale quickly as IT demand increases. And IT as a service’s value is not limited to start up companies. Organizations of all…
What Should you Expect from Disk Backup in 2017?
You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
What is the Hybrid Cloud and How to Make it Work?
The cloud moniker is used to describe virtually everything in IT today. We call that cloud washing and “hybrid cloud” is suffering the same fate. A cloud is typically a scale-out cluster of commodity servers that deliver a service (compute,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, Latency, Scale-Out, VM
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Enterprise File Sync and Share vs. A File Strategy
Users want their files available to them at all times, on any device and at any location. Organizations are scrambling to implement enterprise file sync and share products answer the demand before users go off and do it themselves with…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Encryption, File Sharing, File Strategy, file sync and share, IBM, Latency
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