You need more than a network share and deduplication to stand out among the disk backup crowd in 2017. Things have come a long way since disk backup targets started appearing 17 years ago. The table stakes may still be…
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ChalkTalk Video: Are You Fragmenting Your Cloud?
Most data centers today have multiple primary storage systems. Often, each one supports a specific platform or environment and each of these systems are either backed up or archived. The problem is most data centers’ cloud architectures are at least…
ChalkTalk Video: Archive – It’s About More Than Saving Money
When most organizations consider an archiving project their primary goal is to save money. Basically they are looking to move data off of expensive storage valued at a couple dollars per GB to secondary storage valued at pennies a GB.…
Why Should You Not Use Your Backup as an Archive?
All of us at storage Switzerland preach that backup and archive are two different practices, and have been for probably more than 20 years. But to see the results of a survey during one of our recent webinars, you would…
Can DRaaS Protect you from Ransomware?
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors suggest their offerings can cure a number of ails. They offer the power and recoverability of a hot site without the traditional costs that a hot site present. They offer a way to…
Has All-Flash Really Reached Price Parity on NAS?
Flash has reached the same price as disk! At least that is what all flash vendors want you to believe. But is it true? Has flash really reached price parity with disk? As is often the case it depends on…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Capacity, Disk, file sync and share, Flash, NAS, Nexsan, Replication, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video: Introducing Enterprise Data As A Service
As IT organizations attempt to modernize, they continue to look for ways to offer more of their capabilities as a service. Good examples of this are software as a service and infrastructure as a service. The problem is one of…
What is the Impact of Optimizing a Windows File Server
Optimizing a Windows file server optimizes a number of related processes and systems. In a previous blog we discussed what it’s like to optimize a file server, which involves automatically identifying, moving, and referencing inactive files. Once the initial optimization…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Encryption, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware
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How To Survive 2017’s Flash Drought
“IT we have a problem, we are out of flash.” On several occasions flash NAND manufacturers are telling Storage Switzerland they are nearly sold-out of flash for the rest of the year. A lack of supply means flash storage prices…
How to Optimize Windows File Servers
So many people create files they use once and never use again. They create a spreadsheet for this afternoon’s meeting to support their belief that the department needs more widgets. Once they get approval for the widgets, they don’t need…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloud, Disk, Migration, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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