In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
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ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming Storage Infrastructure Challenges
The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
Selecting the Right OpenStack Storage Module
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
Tagged with: Backup, Block Based Storage, CIFS, Cloud, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale-Out, SwiftStack, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Cost Effective Storage for Legacy Apps heading to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Avere CloudFusion The cloud appeals to organizations of all sizes, but as they begin their migration they are faced with the challenge of trying to integrate into the cloud provider’s storage infrastructure. Amazon, for example, has Elastic Block…
Dell Buys EMC – Can 2+2=6?
As I mentioned in my previous blog about the IBM-Cleversafe deal, the goal of any technology buyout or merger is to make the combined entities more valuable than they were prior to the acquisition. At Storage Switzerland, we refer to…
ChalkTalk Video: Using Object Storage to deal with the Data Explosion
Organizations are being inundated with data for a variety of use cases like storing old data or rich media, enabling file sharing and synchronization and forming a data lake for analytics projects. They need to store all this data, ideally…
The Challenge of Protecting Next Generation Databases
Database Technology Evolves Beyond Traditional Data Protection For over three decades, relational databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix have been primary databases for core business applications. They are used to store and analyze what used to be…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, Datos IO, Deduplication, Next Generation, NoSQL, RPO, RTO, SQL, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: The State of Deduplication – Mid–2015 Update
As we enter the halfway point of 2015, data reduction (deduplication, compression, thin provisioning) has emerged as the key technology driving flash adoption. Data reduction makes flash affordable and is a requirement for ODMs, OEMs and systems companies entering the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Permabit, Thin provisioning, Webinar
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What is Converged Data Management?
Thanks to recent advancements in software and hardware, data centers have a unique opportunity to make their storage infrastructures more responsive, more cost-effective and easier to manage. For the past few years, primary storage has had this opportunity because of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, CDM, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Flash, Replication, ROI, Rubrik, VM
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Unifying Cloud Management through vCenter
Briefing Note: HotLink Introduces Hybrid Cloud Management For the traditional data center, VMware remains the dominant virtualization platform but as enterprise roadmaps begin to map in the cloud they are struggling with how to manage the hybrid environments they are…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, DRaaS, HotLink, Hybrid, Shadow IT, Virtualization, VM
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