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Flash as RAM not Storage
Briefing Note: Diablo Delivers Flash As Memory Since its introduction to the enterprise, flash has been viewed as an expensive but fast alternative to the hard disk drive, but not as inexpensive as RAM. Flash implementation options like PCIe SSDs…
Tagged with: Cloud, Diablo, DIMM, DRAM, Flash, flash memory summit, Hyper-scale, Memory
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Posted in Briefing Note
Infrascale Launches Cloud Failover Appliance with Complete DRaaS Functionality
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, DRaaS, Infrascale, Recovery, Virtual machine
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl
Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Komprise, SaaS, Storage Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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MeetTheCEO: Cloud Backup Provider Datto’s Austin McChord
There has been an unprecedented number of companies entering the cloud backup market in recent years but Datto’s founder and CEO Austin McChord has been at it since 2007. In this MeetTheCEO podcast we learn about McChord and his unique…
Tagged with: Backup, Backupify, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Storage
Posted in Podcast
Posted in Podcast
Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, HA, RPS, SMB
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MeetTheCEO: Hybrid Cloud Provider KeyInfo’s CEO Lief Morin
Our ongoing MeetTheCEO series continues. Listen as the CEO of Key Information Systems, Lief Morin, joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to discuss how traditional mid-market organizations can implement a hybrid cloud to solve a variety of business challenges as well as what Morin is doing for fun this summer!
Webinar: 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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Recovering from a Storage System Failure
The Bad Day Begins A message arrives on your smart phone indicating that the organization’s primary storage system is offline. All the applications that you were counting on it are down, and users can’t get their work done. Further investigation determines that this…
Tagged with: Accelerite, Cloud, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Briefing Note: Panzura SkyBridge solves VDI Storage Challenge
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,…
Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Panzura, Replication, VDI
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