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Briefing Note: Adeptia Connects Businesses and Resolves Shadow IT
Businesses face a common challenge in how to securely and seamlessly exchange data with other organizations they work with. The secure IT solution is to set up an FTP connection, but this takes time and isn’t exactly integrated into the…
Tagged with: Adapter, Adeptia, Cloud, file sync and share, FS&S, FTP, Shadow IT
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Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to perform computational workloads like databases and other applications. They are expecting a cloud provider to either run the entire workload in the cloud or make capacity available for bursting…
Tagged with: Azure, Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, Replication, SAN, SANLess, SIOS Technology
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Briefing Note: Rovius provides the Mobility to realize Virtual Platform and Cloud Freedom
With the move towards software-defined infrastructures and commodity-based hardware, companies are getting used to freedom and flexibility in IT. They also expect that freedom in the cloud, including the ability to move between platforms, clouds and hypervisors easily as they…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Hypervisor, Protection, Rovius, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Podcast – Fixing fractured backup and bad DR
Zetta found in a recent survey of IT pros from a cross-section of companies that IT environments in most companies are a conglomeration of operating systems, platforms and backup solutions and that backup is a mess for most companies and DR…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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Briefing Note: OCZ Intrepid 3700 – 2TB Enterprise SSD priced for Hyper-scale Data Centers
Last November OCZ introduced a new type of high-capacity SSD, the Saber 1000, designed to provide enterprise-like performance and reliability for hyper-scale data centers, at a price point closer to consumer SSDs. But many data centers still needed more, so…
Briefing Note: MobileFAST Extends Distributed Enterprise File Sharing to Mobile Devices
Storage Switzerland was briefed last fall about Talon FAST solutions that are designed to provide secure file sharing between remote locations or branch offices of a company. Installed in those branch offices in place of a local file server, it…
Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it
In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Webinar: Using the Cloud to Create a Truly All-Flash Data Center
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly…
Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
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