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Are You Designing Backup for the Future or the Past?

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Colm Keegan

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

Will your backup infrastructure look the same today as it will next year or the year after that? Or are you anticipating that due to the pressures brought on by growing virtualized server environments and its associated data growth, that…

Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, GRID, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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How Backup Disk Architecture Impacts the Backup Window

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in…

Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, CPU, D2D2T, Deduplication, ExaGrid, GRID, Latency, Recovery, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Tape, WAN
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2014 Storage – Scale Up, Scale Out or Converge?

Posted on January 20, 2014 by George Crump

As we start 2014, storage is changing. The familiar dual controller, scale up architecture is potentially being replaced by a new set of architectures. Storage professionals now have to consider storage systems that can scale out or converge themselves with…

Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Clustering, Converge, Converged Architecture, Latency, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Virtual
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What Object Storage Is – and What It is Not

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage has been around for a number of years but is now getting more attention. This is due to a couple of factors: the amount of data, especially file data, is continuing to grow and the length of time…

Tagged with: Architecture, File system, Metadata, NAS, Object, Object ID Number, Object Storage
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