As we enter the hybrid cloud era one of the biggest challenges facing customers is how to get there. The most common approach is to use the cloud as secondary storage. Typically the cloud is either a primary backup repository or a…
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Storage News and Insights for the week of 4-24
George Crump and Eric Slack join Charlie Hodges on this week’s Storage News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Huge revenues for Amazon Web Services, driving down costs for cloud storage and showing how the cloud is now as fast as…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, NAS, Podcast, SoftNas, SpectraLogic, StorReduce
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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Clone, Cloud, Deduplication, Dev & Test, StorReduce, Virtual machine, VM
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Posted in Briefing Note
Briefing Note: The Cloud is Now as Fast as the SMB
Cloud-based services, like backup and disaster recovery, offer attractive alternatives for many SMBs. They’re simple to set up and operate, can be scaled easily and paid for on a monthly basis. But companies typically have to give something up, usually…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, SMB, Zetta
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The All-Flash Problem… Reality
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center
Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…
Briefing Note: Avere introduces new Use Cases for Google Cloud and Google Compute
Cloud storage is often thought of as a giant repository in the sky, where old backups and archives go, seldom to be seen again. But this may not always be the best cloud use case for data centers. Storing a…
Briefing Note: Promise Technology Vsky – Helping Enterprises Evolve from Terabytes to Petabytes
Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Promise Technology, RAID, SAN, Unstructured data
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Posted in Briefing Note
What is Shadow IT? – and why you should care
“Shadow IT” is a name for the process that occurs when users self-select IT services, signing up for cloud-based services without the knowledge or approval of the IT organization. IT could take the attitude that Shadow IT is a good…
Test Drive: Can Businesses replace Dropbox with Connected Data’s Transporter?
Dropbox is the poster child for Shadow IT, and for good reason. The solution is easy to use and, because it operates transparently, it’s just another folder. But Dropbox was originally designed to be a consumer tool, not a business…
Tagged with: Cloud, Connected Data, File Sharing, file sync and share, FS&S, NAS, SMB, Transporter
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