Storage management tools have sometimes been viewed as a “nice to have” tool by many IT infrastructure planners, however, given all the complexities with efficiently managing resources in today’s highly virtualized server environments, it is quickly turning into a must…
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Climbing the Cloud Wall of Worry
The recent Nirvanix shutdown has prompted many organizations to reassess their public cloud deployment strategy.If a well funded cloud service provider (CSP) with major OEM relationships wasn’t able to survive, what does that portend for other players in the industry?…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, Data security, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Western Digital
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EVault Expands Cloud Backup Appliances
EVault is a fifteen-year-old company with an extensive range of products, from backup software to complete backup solutions for on-site and cloud-based implementations. Several years ago, the company came out with a line of backup appliances that leveraged the company’s…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, EVault, Hybrid Cloud, Microsoft, Remote backup service, Seagate, Seagate Technology, Symantec
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Deep Storage Connects Long Term Data Storage to the Workflow
Deep Storage is a tape tier that’s been made accessible to applications and workflows without file system limitations or the complexity of archiving solutions. Using a REST-based interface called “Deep Simple Storage Services” (DS3) Deep Storage can be directly connected…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Disk storage, Flash memory, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, storage efficiency
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Rationalizing Backup Licensing Strategies
The backup process has a myriad of costs associated with them. There is the obvious cost of the hardware – backup servers, backup storage and network infrastructure. There is also the cost of operations to manage the backup process. One…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud computing, Linux, Storage Switzerland, VMware, Windows
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Rethinking the Storage Controller for Unstructured Data
Conventional wisdom suggests that most business data is stored in database applications, however, unstructured data comprises approximately 70-80% of the total data in a typical environment and, according to some industry sources, is growing 5x as fast. File-based data is…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Exablox, NAS, SharePoint, Unstructured data
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How To Make Object Storage More Secure
Object storage is an enabling technology, one that improves scalability and performance at scale over traditional storage architectures which use RAID and replication to protect data. Using erasure coding and data dispersion within an object storage system can also greatly…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Cloud computing, Data security, Encryption, Keys, Object Storage, RAID, Security
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Seamless Hyper-V or VMware To Amazon EC2
The pay as you go compute capacity of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to dynamically respond to spikes in business. An ideal use case is to move less compute demanding workloads to…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud computing, HotLink, Microsoft, Servers, Virtual machine, VMware
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Cloud Defined Storage
Designing a SAN for the Cloud Service Provider Cloud Service Providers exist in unique market conditions. They are at the same time competitors to and complements to traditional data center IT. Every service they provide is under scrutiny, and those…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud computing, OnApp, Service-level agreement, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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