Have you ever wondered what it was like to transfer data to Google Coldline? It can be super easy or quite difficult, depending on the method you may use. George Simons of Sureline and Storage Switzerland’s Curtis Preston talk about…
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It’s Time To Manage Your Data! – NTP Software Briefing Note
Data is growing, especially file data. This statement should come as no surprise to any IT professional. The response to that growth is typically to keep adding more and more storage capacity. The problem is that most of these additions…
Does Google Have a Faster DRaaS Cloud? – Infrascale Briefing Note
All VMs are not created equal. Two VMs running on equivalent hardware could have different performance based on the hypervisor they’re using. And obviously two VMs using the same hypervisor could have different performance based on the underlying hardware. Could…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Infrascale, Ransomware, SSD, VM
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Does NAS Still Make Sense? – Panzura Briefing Note
When network attached storage (NAS) first came to market its initial use case was to store user data, typically found in file server home directories. All users wanted to be able to do is store and share data between a…
Is There A Better Option Than DRaaS?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is very appealing to data center administrators looking to meet ever tightening recovery objectives but still reduce costs. By leveraging DRaaS, organizations can eliminate the cost of a secondary site and buying stand-by equipment…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Latency, Replication
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Webinar: Moving VMware from Disaster Recovery to High Availability
VMware’s stretch cluster does an excellent job of protecting against a site failure. If your primary data center fails then it is easy to bring up VMs in the second site. But what if you need more? How can you…
The Storage Challenges to IT Agility
IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come…
The Efficiency Challenges facing Deduplication Appliances
Disk is the initial and in many cases the only backup storage device most data centers use today. Once that backup is completed the data is then replicated to another disk backup appliance or to the cloud. The success of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Object Storage, Replication
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ChalkTalk Video: How to Backup Cassandra and MongoDB
Data center backup simply wasn’t built for cloud applications like Cassandra and MongoDB. That was Shalabh Goyal’s main point when I interviewed him last week as the Director of Products for Datos IO, and I couldn’t help but agree with…
Backup isn’t good enough anymore
Backup just isn’t good enough anymore. Restoring isn’t good enough anymore. Today’s users expect much more. I’m a bit of an old fogey when it comes to backup. I made my first backup to a cassette tape attached to a…
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