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A Different Risk from Cloud-based Services

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Recently, reports started coming out of the IT press that a well-known cloud provider had announced it was closing its doors, giving customers 30 days to move their data. For most of their clients, this would be an inconvenience, for…

Tagged with: Amazon Web Services, Barracuda, Business, Cloud computing, Customer, Data center, Service provider, Windows Azure
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment

Posted on August 14, 2013 by George Crump

Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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White Paper – Defining Enterprise Archive

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Eric Slack

Archiving is the process of moving inactive data from primary disk-based storage to an easy-to-access secondary storage tier. The objective of archiving is to gain cost and operational efficiencies while reliably protecting information for the long-term. An Enterprise Archive is…

Tagged with: Archive, Business, White paper
Posted in White Paper

What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by George Crump

In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…

Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
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Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Crump

Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
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Optimizing MS-SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups With Server SSD

Posted on January 9, 2013 by George Crump

Medium- to large-sized data centers count on applications like Microsoft’s SQL Server to support applications that users need to become more productive so that the business can be more competitive. As these applications move into production the businesses become dependent…