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Barracuda Adds MSPs to its Portfolio

There are managed service providers that promise they can backup your data center for a few dollars a month. And for that cheap price, all the organization has to do is install a little piece of software, enter your credit

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Filling the Provider Backup Gateway Gap

Artisan Infrastructure Briefing Note Artisan Infrastructure is a leading cloud infrastructure, management, and business continuity solutions provider. Its solutions enable cloud and hosting providers to migrate, manage and deliver continuously available cloud applications for their customers and suppliers. Artisan provides

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W. Curtis Preston is joining Storage Switzerland

World-renowned blogger and writer W. Curtis Preston is now a member of the Storage Switzerland team of storage analysts. Preston joins Lead Analyst George Crump and Senior Analyst Joseph Ortiz in providing Storage Switzerland readers the best education and insight

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Reverse your Cloud Strategy

Organizations of all sizes are trying to develop a cloud strategy, both in terms of applications and storage. Most of these organizations are finding that the promised cost savings of the cloud are not as great as they had hoped,

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Disk Backup Appliances with Data Deduplication Need to Keep Pace

ExaGrid Briefing Note The performance and capacity capabilities of production storage are increasing to meet the demands of the virtualized data center. These systems can now scale to support highly dense virtual machine populations and the never-ending demand for more

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Designing Backup to replace Primary Storage

Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”

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Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016

In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can

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What is Tape? – A History and a Future

Tape, as a data storage medium in computers, is a technology that is over 60 years old and was first used to backup data from a Univac I system back in 1951. It continued to be used to back up

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What is Object Storage and what can you use it for?

For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files

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Using Object Storage to Reverse Cloud Storage

A top priority for IT professionals in 2016 is deciding on a cloud storage strategy. Of the available options, most consider using the public cloud for secondary storage purposes, like backup and archiving, to be the most obvious path to

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