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Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
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Briefing Note: SolidFire shows why more and less is better for Software Releases

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Nitrogen is SolidFire’s seventh generation OS release, following their theme of naming operating system versions after elements, Oxygen being the next. With 100+ elements on the period table, they should be set for the next several years of releases. While…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Infrastructure, SolidFire, SSD, VLAN
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Briefing Note: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance

Posted on February 3, 2015 by George Crump

Backup appliances have become a popular method for backup software vendors to deliver their software. It eliminates much of the hassle of initial installation and makes on-going support easier, since the vendor is now dealing with a more common foundation.…

Tagged with: Archive, Arcserve, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Migration, Replication, Tape, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: StorageX Promises to end NAS Migration pain

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Eric Slack

The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…

Briefing Note: LinkTek – Making sure your Storage Refresh works

Posted on January 30, 2015 by George Crump

Storage upgrades and consolidation are a way of life for the modern IT professional. One of the most challenging but overlooked aspects of an upgrade is data migration, a process that’s not as simple as copying files and other data…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, LinkTek, Metadata, Migration, Shared Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: CloudAlly provides Unlimited SaaS Application Backup

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Eric Slack

Originally the term “cloud backup” referred to primarily consumer-grade services that backed up PCs and laptops to a cloud-based provider. These services were designed to protect users’ data, mostly digital content like photos and music, but also documents. But business…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, CloudAlly, Data Protection, Deduplication, Infrastructure, SaaS, Software as a service
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Briefing Note: NetApp upgrades EF Arrays to address Performance First Workloads

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

Flash storage is being used in three areas of the data center infrastructure. First, flash and all-flash arrays are seeing adoption in both server and desktop computing environments, as well as mid-range database applications. Second, for databases that demand extremely…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Converged, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Mirroring, NAND, NetApp, performance, Replication, Scale Up, Snapshots
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Briefing Note: Platform9 brings Amazon Class Automation to Traditional Data Centers

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

For many data centers the most appealing part of the public cloud is the automated provisioning. Users or application owners simply define the type and amount of compute and storage they need and the public cloud automatically provisions the exact…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Platform9, Provisioning, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Extends Value of File Sync and Share

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Eric Slack

Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that addresses the issues most company IT organizations…

Tagged with: Architecture, CIFS, Cloud, Egnyte, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid, Metadata, Share
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Briefing Note: Ravello enables traditional Data Centers to leverage the Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…