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Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: DataGravity – Intelligent Primary Storage

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

There is no question that data centers need to provide faster access to ever increasing volumes of data, and do so at increasingly lower price points. To accomplish this storage vendors are focused on integrating flash based storage as well…

Tagged with: Caching, Compression, Data Intelligence, Data Protection, DataGravity, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HSM, ILM, Tiering
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Briefing Note: The Next Generation Data Center demands SDS 2.0

Posted on January 19, 2015 by George Crump

The next generation data center requires a fundamental change in the way we implement and manage storage. IT professionals who are trying to implement these various changes have two basic options: Clean Slate or Augment. The problem is that both…

Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…

Tagged with: Big data, Business Analytics, Data Protection, High Capacity, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Panasas, Reliability, SATA, Scale-Out, SSD, Unstructured data
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In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…

Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: Unitrends delivers Flash in a Backup Appliance

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Dedicated backup appliances have become a very popular method for deploying data protection software. They significantly reduce implementation time and greatly streamline ongoing support. But backup appliances face a challenge; everything around them is getting bigger and faster. Making sure…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Flash, Metadata, Recovery, Solid State Disk, Unitrends, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Zadara Multi-Tenant Storage Multi-Zoned for increased Availability

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Any time a storage system claims to be “enterprise-class”, IT planners should look into its ability to survive a disaster. This is even true for storage systems that are cloud based, since a cloud data center is still just that,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, HA, Infrastructure, Multi-Tenant Storage, Replication, Zadara
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Briefing Note: CipherCloud provides Shadow IT Insight

Posted on January 12, 2015 by George Crump

An organization’s users can now, with the swipe of a credit card, create their own IT infrastructure. The term for this is “Shadow IT” and it’s growing rapidly in organizations of all sizes. There are two steps to dealing with…

Tagged with: CipherCloud, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, file sync and share, Infrastructure, Shadow IT, Sync
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Briefing Note: Quorum’s onQ Flex adds on Demand DR Protection for Tier-two Servers

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Eric Slack

Quorum offers local high availability (HA) and cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solutions that are built around their disaster recovery appliances. These systems maintain updated virtual machine clones, ready to run in a few minutes when a primary server goes down.…