When business application owners begin referring to Facebook as the standard for application availability, IT organizations are being put on notice – deliver or we will go elsewhere. The challenge is that traditional high availability clustering technologies can be costly,…
With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…
In our prior article, we discussed how enterprise data centers have a need for software defined object storage technology that can leverage commodity hardware to drive down data center costs and to enable businesses to refresh their storage infrastructure with…
When IT organizations start being compared to Facebook, in terms of application availability, it is clear that business application owners are becoming increasingly less tolerant of ANY application downtime. In fact during a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “HA and DR…
Various industry sources estimate that unstructured data (user files, PDFs, email, rich multimedia, machine sensor data, etc.) accounts for upwards of 90% of all new data growth. Software-defined object storage offers an alternative approach to NAS/SAN systems. But many organizations…
“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…
The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…
Storage Switzerland and SIOS Technologies are teaming up for a webinar live on October 29th at 12pm CT or ON Demand if you miss the live presentation on the HA and DR must haves for cloud-based MS-SQL. In this podcast,…
With the burgeoning growth of data, many legacy storage systems simply struggle to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) in check. This article will look at the ways that Private Cloud Storage can address the TCO shortcomings of legacy…
Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…
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