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What is the cost of Application Downtime?

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Colm Keegan

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Can Joe’s Plumbing benefit from Google and Facebook Storage?

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Private Cloud Storage cost containment

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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Seagate’s NAS Pro may be all the Cloud an SMB Needs

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

The proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services is a good indicator of how people are working nowadays – and what a small company’s storage system needs to provide. It’s all about collaboration and presenting ‘anywhere, anytime, on any device’…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disk Drive, LAN, NAS, Sdrive, Seagate, SMB
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Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Posted on October 8, 2014 by George Crump

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data…

Tagged with: Cloud, CSP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, MSP, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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Storage Short: Why Private Cloud Storage is ready for Business

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

One of the simplest ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage is to make its entry point less expensive. Legacy storage systems are designed with custom hardware, custom silicon and sophisticated, often proprietary software. This can…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
Posted in StorageShort

Webinar: HA and DR must haves for Cloud Based MS-SQL

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

Businesses are looking to the cloud to either be an extension of their current MS-SQL application infrastructure (Hybrid Cloud) or they are considering having their MS-SQL applications fully hosted in the cloud. A key consideration in either scenario is how…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology
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Low cost Cloud Backup and High Availability

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Is high availability an affordable option for small to medium sized businesses? Many large enterprise data center environments utilize server clustering and replication technology to protect their critical business systems from disruptive outages. And while these solutions can provide the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Datto makes Virtual Hybrid Cloud Backup easy

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many businesses and service providers (SPs) are looking for ways to leverage cloud based backup solutions. For businesses, backing up data into the cloud represents a cost-effective way to manage the day-to-day task of protecting critical business data. For service…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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