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NetApp and Amazon partnerup – Podcast

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and I talk about a note from a recent briefing with NetApp about how the company is teaming up with Amazon AWS. While some might think NetApp and Amazon AWS would be competitors, George…

See you at the SNIA Conference – Video

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Join Storage Switzerland at the Data Storage Innovation Conferance in April. The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has a new event designed for end users that features certifications, vendor presentations, hands on labs and the opportunity to watch a Storage…

Use Software To Get Peak WAN Performance – Podcast

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Get ready for software defined WAN Acceleration for Virtual Environments. Silver Peak VP of Marketing Tony Thompson and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan discuss their recent webinar Ready for Software WAN Acceleration. To see the webinar, click on the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Silver Peak, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization, WAN Acceleration, WAN optimization
Posted in Podcast

Software Defined Storage – Podcast

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Hyper-converged storage is true Software-defined Storage (SDS), since by migrating storage intelligence to the hypervisor it’s completely hardware agnostic. But there’s still room for improvement. In this podcast, we look at how SDS is evolving and how it can continue…

Tagged with: Atlantis ILIO, Backup, Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Flash, Flash memory, Hardware, Software Defined Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
Posted in Podcast

VMAX Made Easy

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…

Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, EMCbreifingDay, IOPS, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note

Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps

Posted on December 2, 2013 by George Crump

In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
Posted in Webinar

Can The Enterprise Count on The Cloud For Data Protection?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.