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The New Storage Center for SMBs – Podcast

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Small to medium-sized businesses have special needs for their data centers. I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and WD Senior Product Line Manager Paul Chen to talk about how SMBs can use the cloud. Click…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, SMB, Western Digital
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Rethinking Data Protection in the Modern Data Center – Podcast

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump is a leading expert on data protection. He joins me on this podcast with Stephen Spellicy, Senior Director, Product Management from HP to talk about how to service level objective driven backups can…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, HP Backup and Recovery, Protection, recover, SLO, Storage Switzerland
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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

I just caught up with Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland on a webinar Storage Switzerland is doing with WD on May 21. It will cover SMB’s and the need to update or even build a data center. To register for…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, SMB, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage area network, Virtualization
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Should we stop worrying about Flash wear out? – Podcast

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack has an article entitled, “Is It Time To Stop Worrying About Flash Wear Out?” We’ll discuss that with Micron’s Doug Rollins. You can learn more about this by reading Eric’s article by clicking here.

Tagged with: Flash Wear, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Webinar Preview: Picking the right SSD for the job – Podcast

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Micron’s Doug Rollins and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack talk about SSD and how to pick the right SSD for a specific job in your data center. This is a preview of a webinar coming up on May 14…

Preview: Avere Hybrid Cloud Webinar – Podcast

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and Avere Systems CEO Ron Biancini talk about Hybrid Cloud and how it can help your data center. Click here to register for the live webinar on Tuesday, May 13, or to listen to it…

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EMCworld: An update on Viper – Podcast

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland’s George Crump is attending EMCworld in Las Vegas. This afternoon he is giving us a full update on Viper. We will provide a final update on EMCworld that will be available Thursday morning, May 8.

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What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash…

Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Storage Architecture, Virtualization, VMware
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EMCworld: Elastic Cloud Storage – Podcast

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland is at EMCworld in Las Vegas. George Crump and I talk about EMC’s announcement of Elastic Cloud Storage. Comeback for an afternoon update at 2 p.m. Central/Noon Paciific (For Wednesday, May 7.)

Tagged with: Elastic Cloud Storage, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCworld2014
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