With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…
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Reducing Storage TCO with Private Cloud Storage
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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What is Copy Data?
Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Convergence, Copy Data, Data Protection, performance, Recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Storage Short: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item
Back in the early 2000s, when deduplication first came to market, it was a new concept and people had no problem asking a lot of questions about it. Fast forward 14 years – now deduplication is almost everywhere and we’re…
Is Dedupe Overrated?
Advanced data reduction technologies are central to the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market segment. They shrink the amount of data that’s actually committed to storage and help make these relatively fixed capacity devices feasible. But data reduction only provides…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Recovery, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup
For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
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4 assumptions that are killing your backup – Podcast
Right after George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Gideon Senderov from NEC finished their webinar on four assumptions that are killing your backup, we got together in the podcast studio to talk about an intriguing discovery from their presentation. That’s the…
Don’t treat your Backup like an Archive
As the repository of last resort, backups are unique. They essentially store every piece of data in the company, at least all the data that’s worth saving. In order to do this, modern backup systems, which are often disk-based appliances,…
Why HGST is now building Storage Systems
Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…
HGST announces 10TB HDD, ‘Flash Fabric’, NVMe SSDs, Archive Platform
At HGST’s Analyst’s Day in San Francisco this week the company announced several new storage products including a 10 TB drive that uses Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology in conjunction with the company’s Helium (He) technology platform, plus an 8TB…
Free Disk? No Thanks
This morning I am flying to New York City to attend Fujifilm’s 6th Annual Global IT Executive Summit. The theme of this year’s event is, “into Tomorrow with Tape Technology, Preserving and Protecting Critical Data”. This is a data protection…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Data Retention, Fujifilm, Recovery, Tape, Unstructured data
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