Anyone in IT these days is painfully aware of the challenge organizations face dealing with ever-increasing amounts of data they need to properly store and protect. The irony is that the majority of data growth is not just the new…
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Improving Data Protection with Data Virtualization – Actifio Briefing Note
Tagged with: Actifio, Cloud, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, dr, Hypervisor, RAID, Replication, Snaphots, Test/Dev, Virtualization
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Is Google Cloud easier?
Google cloud may be easier to use and understand than the 800 pound gorilla it is taking on. Amazon Web services (AWS) and Amazon’s object storage (S3) are easily the most well used cloud computing and storage platform at this…
Faster Backup to the Cloud
When using a cloud backup as a server (BaaS) or disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) the perception is that backup performance is about the same between solutions since they all count on the Internet for transfer and they all…
Webinar: How to Use Cloud Storage to Overcome The Three Challenges to ACTIVE Data Archiving
Any discussion on archiving data makes sense, on paper. Most data centers indicate that well over 85 percent of their data has not been used in 90 days or more. The potential capital savings by moving this near-active and old…
StorageShort: How do you get Data to Google Coldline?
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…
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…
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