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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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Unstructured Data is distracting Backup Administrators

Posted on December 1, 2014 by George Crump

File based data accounts for more than 80 percent of capacity demand and backup administrators spend most of their time protecting this unstructured data. But the remaining set, structured data, will cause the organization the most harm if it is…

Tagged with: Active Archive, Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud as a Service, Data Protection, Nasuni, Recovery, Unstructured data
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Why Business-Defined IT may well Define IT in 2015

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the IT trends that we see coming in 2015 is something called “Business-Defined IT”. This is essentially a focus for IT on collaborating with internal business entities and providing business services rather than just building and running infrastructure.…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Business-Defined IT, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Trends
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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Some corporate financial planners are pointing towards the use of hybrid cloud solutions as a way to reduce storage costs. The idea is to move redundant copies of information off expensive onsite primary storage to lower cost storage in the…

Tagged with: Backup, Catalogic, Cloud, Copy Data, Data OnTap, dev/ops, dr, Snapshot, Software Defined, Virtual
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Using EMC RecoverPoint to improve DR testing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the key components of any disaster recovery plan is to verify that plan and make sure it works. The problem is that these tests are expensive, are not real world and are performed infrequently. In this article, we…

Virtualized Cloud Backup for Anything

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many technology companies talk a good game about providing their customers with choice, but few actually deliver on it. Public, private and hybrid cloud backup solution provider, Infrascale’s offering was built from the ground up with customer choice and hybrid…

Tagged with: Backup, Backup to the Cloud, Cloud, Compression, D2D, D2D2C, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, Disk-to-Disk, Hybrid, Infrascale
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Is Druva’s Phoenix the next step in Mid-market Cloud Backup?

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Eric Slack

Druva is a market leader in end-point data protection with over 3000 customers in 70 countries. They see cloud backup approaching a ‘tipping point’ which could enable it to become a de facto standard in the backup industry, especially if…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, D2D2C, Data Protection, Data Retention, Data security, Deduplication, Druva, Latency, Metadata
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OCZ’s Saber 1000 Flash Drives Fill the Gap between Client and Enterprise SSDs

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Eric Slack

Hyper-scale deployments, common in cloud environments, can have hundreds of rack-mounted servers running content-based applications, such as media streaming, video on demand or web services. These mostly read-intensive workloads require the strong storage performance of server-side flash, but hyper-scale infrastructures…

Tagged with: Cloud, Enterprise, Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, SATA, SSD
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Webinar – Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility…