SDS promises to deliver a number of benefits to end users, including flexibility, management simplicity and cost savings. Storage vendors can also leverage SDS technologies, but many do it for their own benefits. In this Storage Short, Storage Switzerland Founder,…
A recent webinar poll of the audience showed that over half were concerned that SDS wasn’t really ‘ready for prime time’. In this storage short, George Crump and Thomas Cornley from Nexenta discuss what makes SDS solutions appropriate for mission-critical,…
The concept of an always-on application has been a reality for years thanks to clustered applications and add-on High Availability (HA) software, but meeting this expectation can be expensive and complicated. Expand the scope beyond a single application, to an entire…
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the…
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is one of the hottest topics in the IT industry and, as a technology, provides some significant advantages over traditional storage system designs. These advantages translate into substantial benefits that arguably have driven the interest in SDS…
IT professionals in charge of data protection face a never ending challenge to get backups done faster while data volumes continue to increase. Add to that increased concerns about the security of data that they are protecting. While some deduplication…
In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…
There’s considerable diversity in how vendors implement their software-defined technologies – and differences in the benefits they deliver. In this Storage Podcast, George Crump Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland and Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer at Nexenta, answer the questions…
Join George Crump and I for our latest CEO Podcast with the CEO of ExaGrid, Bill Andrews. Bill talks about how ExaGrid has evolved its solution from a backup appliance with deduplication to a data protection appliance, ideal for recovery…
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
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