Mr. Backup had his MacBooks and iPads stolen this week. (That’s the end of me referring to myself in the third person.) I’ve told the story dozens of times this week, but here goes. I went to dinner in Houston…
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Easing Amazon EBS Snapshot Pain, for Free
It’s a major pain to manage snapshots in Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS). It’s essentially a single command line with very limited capabilities. The result is that developers writing applications for AWS find themselves building tools to…
MeetTheCEO: Caringo’s Jonathan Ring
Caringo’s Jonathan Ring is the CEO on our latest MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Jonathan discusses how Caringo’s software is the foundation for simple, bulletproof, limitless storage solutions. We also discuss the company’s goals and…
Not all “Inline” Dedupe is actually Inline – and it matters
Those considering the purchase of a storage system that advertises deduplication as a feature need to know what real inline dedupe is, because it matters quite a bit. According to the online SNIA dictionary, there are two types of deduplication:…
Moving Data Between Clouds w/AltaVault & OnCloud
NetApp is doing some truly interesting things under their OnCloud heading, including Cloud OnTap, Private Storage for Cloud, and AltaVault. While some of them are definitely OnTap centric and the kind of thing we have come to expect from NetApp,…
The Problems with VMware Snapshots
There are generally three ways we create snapshots in this world: copy-on-write, redirect-on-write, and VMware’s way. As a result, you should delete VMware snapshots as soon as possible – preferably within a few minutes of their creation. A previous post…
Snapshot 101: Copy-on-write vs Redirect-on-write
There are two very different ways to create snapshots: copy-on-write and redirect-on-write. If IT is considering using the snapshot functionality of their storage system, it is essential to understand which type of snapshot it creates and the pros and cons…
Webinar: 5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve IT challenges of all types. When it comes to storage, IT mostly looks at the cloud for backup, archive and occasionally for collaboration. But not for primary storage.…
Is Hyperconverged worth the Hype?
Hyperconvergence is capturing the attention of IT professionals. The apparent simplicity of the technology is certainly appealing to an IT staff that is often stretched too thin to properly manage the environment. As a result the IT staff is often…
Addressing Modern Recovery Requirements
A Product Analysis of Dell Rapid Recovery It’s time for a new type of backup and recovery because the old ways of backup simply do not meet the current needs of many businesses. It starts with the inefficiencies of how…
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