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Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?

Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud

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DevOps for IT Pros: The Key to Addressing Bi-Modal IT

DevOps can deliver a strong return on investment (ROI) for those environments choosing to invest in it. Environments adopting a DevOps mentality move from merely supporting operations to truly enabling better, more efficient operations. IT moves from merely changing the

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EMC Pivoting to SDS & Cloud?

The keynote presentations at EMC World seemed very different to me this year. I’ve been to several EMC World conferences, and this one seemed to suggest a pivot for the company that we followed for so many years. To me,

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StorageShort: The Challenges of the Private Cloud

A private cloud should be the ultimate goal of the software defined data center (SDC). It transforms the data center into a self-provisioned, highly automated organism, that is more responsive to the needs of the organization while driving down the

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Veeam moves to the Public Cloud: Veeam V9

Veeam has been a leader in the private cloud world for a while now, but in its latest release it set its sights on using the public cloud in the same way their customers have. It is also adding support

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MeetTheCEO: ClearSky Data’s Ellen Rubin

ClearSky’s Ellen Rubin is the co-founder and CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ellen discusses how ClearSky’s global storage network simplifies the entire data lifecycle and delivers enterprise storage as a fully managed

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MeetTheCEO: Avere Systems’ Ron Bianchini

Avere’s Ron Bianchini is the CEO on our MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Ron discusses how Avere gives organizations the ability to put an end to the rising cost and complexity of data storage, the

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Solving the Ransomware Problem – Backup or Cloud Storage?

Given the “success” of its initial wave, the ransomware problem is getting worse. Backups seem to be the “go to” solution but really they should represent the last line of defense. The problem with backups are that they are not

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Hyperconverged Flash – Scaling

Scale Computing Briefing Note There are generally three ways one can use flash in a storage system. From a data management perspective, the all-flash array is the easy approach as one does not need to decide what will go on

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Webinar: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better

Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and number of files you store? Cloud storage

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