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ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…

Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
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Keys to Successful Hybrid Cloud Strategies – Podcast

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Avere System’s Mark Eastman and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan talk with us about Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy. Watch our webinar “Five Keys to a Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” and get an exclusive…

Tagged with: Avere, Backup, backup system, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Hybrid Cloud, Storage
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The New Storage Center for SMBs – Podcast

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Small to medium-sized businesses have special needs for their data centers. I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and WD Senior Product Line Manager Paul Chen to talk about how SMBs can use the cloud. Click…

Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, SMB, Western Digital
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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

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…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, SMB, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage area network, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video – The Hype Around Converged Storage

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The hottest trend in storage now is converged storage. In this architecture the physical servers that host virtual machines also provide a shared storage resource by abstracting and aggregating their own internal storage. Like any storage architecture this approach has…

The Next Generation Data Center – Podcast

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Changes are coming to the Data Center. It will be highly virtualized with extremely high virtual machine densities. It will thrive on flexibility, cost and efficiency. To talk about The Next Generation Data Center is Jay Prassl from SolidFire and Storage Switzerland…

Tagged with: Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Scale-Out, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk – Edge Filer Powered Hybrid Cloud Storage

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Colm Keegan

To learn about how Edge Filers can help you drive down storage costs while enhancing application performance, watch this chalk talk video between George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Ron Bianchini from Avere. The cloud service provider “storage wars” are creating…

Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Edge Filer, Storage Switzerland
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The Active Archive Alliance Saving You From Unstructured Data Deluge – Podcast

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and I sit down with Floyd Christofferson, Chairman of the Board for the Active Archive Alliance. Floyd talks about the value of the Alliance and how its work can help the IT…