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Briefing Note: Platform9 brings Amazon Class Automation to Traditional Data Centers

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

For many data centers the most appealing part of the public cloud is the automated provisioning. Users or application owners simply define the type and amount of compute and storage they need and the public cloud automatically provisions the exact…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Platform9, Provisioning, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Egnyte’s Content Intelligence Extends Value of File Sync and Share

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Eric Slack

Egnyte has helped create the file sync and share (FS&S) product space since their founding in 2007, focusing on the enterprise end of this crowded market. They have developed a solution set that addresses the issues most company IT organizations…

Tagged with: Architecture, CIFS, Cloud, Egnyte, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid, Metadata, Share
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Using the Nasuni Service to solve File Data Challenges

Posted on January 28, 2015 by George Crump

File data, also known as unstructured data, is one of the biggest challenges facing IT. Users want seamless access to this data no matter where they are or how old the data is. IT needs to manage the growth of…

Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Data Protection, File Data, Nasuni, Recovery, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: Why you DO need to Backup the SaaS Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Eric Slack

In my last column I discussed how cloud usage is approaching the ‘tipping point’, where companies will have to use the cloud in order to meet their expected infrastructure demands. Coupled with the price wars that are going on between…

Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Recovery, SaaS, Software as a service
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Briefing Note: Ravello enables traditional Data Centers to leverage the Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Metadata, Ravello, SaaS, Software as a service, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMDK
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Cloud Backups – Purpose Built vs. Public Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

Leveraging the cloud as part of the data protection process is increasing in popularity, and with that popularity come a lot of options for IT planners to sift through. One area of consideration is the cloud destination. There is a…

Briefing Note: Dakota Cloud Recovery – Cloud Backup is about Data Center Quality

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Cloud backup providers can come in a variety of forms. Some are really backup software developers that happen to leverage the cloud as part of their software solution. These providers count on a generic cloud data center, like Amazon AWS…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dakota, Data Protection, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Infrastructure, Recovery
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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Hyper-scale Nightmare: Using Consumer SSD in the Data Center – Podcast

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

One way admins of hyperscale data centers try to reduce costs is to use consumer-grade solid state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used in these environments. In this podcast, Shawn Worsell of OCZ/Toshiba…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data center, Flash, Hyper-scale, Hyperscale, IOPS, OCZ, OCZ Technology, SATA, SSD, Web-scale
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OpenStack Swift – Should Enterprise Customers DIY or use SwiftStack?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by George Crump

The amount of storage being generated everyday by enterprises is growing rapidly, with no sign of slowing down. Enterprise IT is now faced with the challenge of storing and managing this data in a world where IT budgets are stagnant…