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Briefing Note: Delphix delivers Application Centric Copy Data Management

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The average data center creates 8-10 copies of application data for a variety of purposes ranging from data protection to development to analytics reporting. The process to create these copies is inefficient and the cost to store them is expensive.…

Tagged with: Analytics, Consolidation, Copy Data, Data Protection, Delphix, Migration, Replication
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Briefing Note: Unitrends – The Best of Enterprise and Startup Data Protection?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

The backup market is a crowded market with an almost overwhelming number of solutions available. Startup vendors tend to specialize, some in just the virtual environment, while others are leveraging the cloud to offer services like in-cloud recovery. The number…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Migration, Unitrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: The Ultra48 AssuredSAN, Dot Hill’s new High-Density Hybrid Array

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Eric Slack

Long-time storage systems OEM, Dot Hill, recently announced the Ultra48 AssuredSAN, a high-density, 48-drive, hybrid disk array that runs their RealStor 2.0 software. The Ultra48 is designed with three drawers of 16 x 2.5” drives that can be configured in…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Caching, Dot Hill, FC, HDD, Hybrid array, ISCSI, SSD, Tiering
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Briefing Note: Backup is about Recovery, so is Axcient’s Latest Release

Posted on January 9, 2015 by George Crump

There is an overused saying in the data protection market, “it is all about recovery”. I often debate this phrase since no recovery happens if there are not frequent and quality backups being made. But it is fair to say…

Tagged with: Axcient, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Replication, VMDK
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Briefing Note: Sphere 3D and Overland Storage complete merger, introduce new VDI Appliance

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Eric Slack

On December 2nd 2014, Sphere 3D, manufacturer of the Glassware 2.0 application virtualization platform, completed the merger announced in May with longtime storage vendor Overland Storage, makers of the SnapServer NAS products, NEO tape libraries and RDX portable disk drives.…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-converged, NAS, Overland Storage, Sphere 3D, Tape, VDI, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth

Posted on December 23, 2014 by George Crump

Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Briefing Note: Pure Storage announces an All-Flash Converged Infrastructure

Posted on December 17, 2014 by George Crump

We covered Hardware Convergence in a recent column, “What are Converged Infrastructures?”. Hardware Converged Infrastructures (HCI) are architectures based on independent name brand components that are pre-integrated and optimized to work together. Pure Storage has just announced a new converged…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Density, Hardware Converged Infrastructure, HCI, performance, Pure, Virtual machine, VM
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Briefing Note: Removing Tape Pain with B&L Associates Vertices and VaultLedger

Posted on December 9, 2014 by George Crump

Recently I wrote an article “Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape” which explained the advantages of using tape for cold backup storage and active archive storage. The economics behind tape are simply too compelling to ignore. The…

Tagged with: Archive, B&L Associates, Backup, Certificate of Destruction, COD, Disk, Tape
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Briefing Note: Coho Data announces Site-To-Site Replication

Posted on December 5, 2014 by George Crump

A big challenge for a startup in the storage space is catching up to the legacy vendors in terms of features, with one of the most critical and apparently most difficult to complete being site-to-site replication. This feature allows the…

Tagged with: Coho Data, Compression, Encryption, Replication, Scale-Out, Site-to-Site, Snapshot, Software Defined, Sync, Virtual machine
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OCZ’s Saber 1000 Flash Drives Fill the Gap between Client and Enterprise SSDs

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Eric Slack

Hyper-scale deployments, common in cloud environments, can have hundreds of rack-mounted servers running content-based applications, such as media streaming, video on demand or web services. These mostly read-intensive workloads require the strong storage performance of server-side flash, but hyper-scale infrastructures…

Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, SATA, SSD
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