Is cloud based DR and recovery all that it is cracked up to be? Many businesses are looking at the cloud as the DR promised land. By drastically reducing the costs of DR infrastructure, the cloud can potentially make DR…
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Automating VMware DR Recovery at Amazon
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Infrastructure, OneCloud, Provisioned, Recovery, VMware
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Seagate’s NAS Pro may be all the Cloud an SMB Needs
The proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services is a good indicator of how people are working nowadays – and what a small company’s storage system needs to provide. It’s all about collaboration and presenting ‘anywhere, anytime, on any device’…
RackWare solves the last mile problem with Cloud DR
RackWare doesn’t see the cloud as another silo or a replacement of a company’s local environment, per se, but as an additional resource that enables them to do more with their existing infrastructures. The product is a management solution that…
Storage Administrator Nirvana
What if setting up a new storage system took less time than waiting for a cup of cappuccino to brew at your favorite cafe? Sound too good to be true? Well today at Truth in IT’s Next Generation Storage Summit…
Eagle Eye Networks brings the Cloud to Video Surveillance
Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…
Tagged with: Analytics, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, Data Growth, Eagle Eye, Expandable, Infrastructure, Video
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Nimble fills out their Adaptive Flash Line
Nimble announced two new models to their “Adaptive Flash” line of hybrid disk and flash storage systems. These arrays, the CS300 and CS500, are updated versions of Nimble’s CS200 and CS400 products, respectively, providing a 50% performance improvement over the…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, Cache, Capacity, Flash, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Nimble, SSD
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VMworld 2014: Can Arcserve make a comeback?
This week in San Francisco, we spent a lot of time meeting with all the new and emerging companies in the storage market. We talked about hot topics like flash storage and server side storage. It came as a surprise…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Replication, Service Level, Source Side Deduplication
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Nexenta explains the economics behind Software-Defined Storage
Nexenta is a software-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86-based hardware of their choice and disk or flash-based arrays, with support recently added for all-flash arrays. Based on the ZFS file system,…
Tagged with: CIFS, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Nexenta, Object Storage, Red Hat, SDS, Software Defined, VMware, VSAN, Windows
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Storage, Data Protection and Data Insight All-In-One
If knowledge is power, then DataGravity’s solution offering may be a way for businesses to tap into that power. During Day 2 of VMworld, we sat down with the folks from DataGravity to discuss how their “data aware” storage platform…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Governance, Data Protection, DataGravity, Storage
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Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle
At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…
Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
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