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Making Virtual Server Recovery-In-Place Viable

Backup technology for virtualized environments has become increasingly more advanced. Many organizations have implemented backup applications which are specifically designed to efficiently backup data in a virtualized environment without causing any disruption to application performance. In addition, some backup applications,

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Webinar – The Four NEW Requirements of Backup Disk For Veeam Success

Veeam and other virtualization specific backup solutions change the game when it comes to data protection. They provide the capability to backup virtual machines rapidly and repeatedly, thanks to change block backups. Second, they provide the ability to recover virtual

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Storage Q&A: Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?

Charlie: I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to talk about one of our recent webinars; “How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup”. We had a large attendance for

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Rethinking Data Protection in the Modern Data Center – Podcast

Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump is a leading expert on data protection. He joins me on this podcast with Stephen Spellicy,  Senior Director, Product Management from HP to talk about how to service level objective driven backups can

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ChalkTalk Video – Abstracting Disk and Tape To Solve The Unstructured Data Problem

Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed

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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast

I just caught up with Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland on a webinar Storage Switzerland is doing with WD on May 21. It will cover SMB’s and the need to update or even build a data center. To register for

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CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP

Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data

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Chalk Talk Video – DR-as-a-Service: Compliant DR Protection for the Mid-Market

Most of the disasters that befall a company aren’t hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or acts of terrorism. Most IT disasters are simply unplanned downtime of critical servers. While these are a lot less dramatic, and a lot more common, they can

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Need Consulting? We can help. – Podcast

Who better to help you with your storage issues than to get input from the folks who you listen to here! Lead Analyst George Crump talks about the consulting service we provide at Storage Switzerland. Subscribe to our podcasts at

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