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What Killed Archive?

The case for implementing an archive strategy is impressive, move the inactive 80% of data that hasn’t been accessed in the last year off of production storage to an archive store. An archive solution is less expensive, requires less power,

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What is Converged Data Management?

Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of

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Video: What happens at the Backup 2.0 Workshop?

In this video, we get an example of the in the trenches, real world training provided at the Storage Decisions / TechTarget Backup 2.0 Workshop featuring Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump. Watch this interactive, vendor agnostic, deep

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Are you paying too much for DR Storage?

We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions

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ChalkTalk Video: Web-Scale Storage Solutions for Mid-Tier Data Centers

Mid-market data centers face big challenges when dealing with secondary data like backups, archives and simply dealing with unstructured data. This data can amount to 80% or more of the total data center storage capacity footprint. Ideally these data centers

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The Hard Disk Autopsy

The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it

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Fixing the Hybrid Cloud

Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply

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Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?

High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure

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Is Tape still Viable for Data Protection?

Is tape for data protection really dead? There are more than a few people in the industry who seem to think so. Even the tape industry often positions tape as being for archiving rather than data protection. Moreover, there is

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Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities

Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually

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