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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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The Rubber Hit the Road: Stolen Laptops and iPads

Mr. Backup had his MacBooks and iPads stolen this week. (That’s the end of me referring to myself in the third person.) I’ve told the story dozens of times this week, but here goes. I went to dinner in Houston

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Easing Amazon EBS Snapshot Pain, for Free

It’s a major pain to manage snapshots in Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS). It’s essentially a single command line with very limited capabilities. The result is that developers writing applications for AWS find themselves building tools to

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 3 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will give you a recap of EMC World day 3

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Webinar: Understanding Cloud File Services – Why You Need Them and What Are Your Options

Organizations looking to move some or all of their workloads to the cloud will at some point look for a way to provide those applications with basic file services. In this on demand webinar Storage Switzerland and SoftNAS lead an in-depth discussion of why

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MeetTheCEO: Scality’s Jerome Lecat

Sometimes the best traveled roads take you around some curves. That’s the kind of road Jerome Lecat is traveling with his company Scality. In this episode on Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk to Lecat about his

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 2 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this podcast we will you a recap of EMC World day 2 and give

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 1 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way and StorageSwiss is there. Join me as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will do more than just give you

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