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Webinar: Designing Cloud Backup to reduce DR downtime for IT Professionals

Posted on October 2, 2014 by George Crump

IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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Seagate’s Kinetic Drives improve Cloud Storage TCO and Performance

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

In an earlier column we talked about the world’s insatiable appetite for storage and the gap between projected demand and supply of that capacity. In response to this demand disk drive companies are thinking beyond the drive, to the array…

Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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Seagate plans 20TB Hard Drives… but we’ll still need more!

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

At their second Industry Analyst Cloud Summit in San Francisco last week, Seagate shared some information that we’ve heard many times: the amount of data being created is almost incomprehensible. But they said something that many probably haven’t heard before:…

Tagged with: Areal Density, Capacity, Cloud, Density, Hard Drive, Seagate, Shingled Magnetic Recording, SMR
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HDS addresses the Mobility Challenge – for Users and IT

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Eric Slack

The watchword in IT and in storage, according to HDS, is “mobility”, as mobile users and mobile devices continue to impact every aspect of data storage, now and in the near future. At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, we spoke with…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Mobility, Next Generation Storage Summit, Virtual machine, VM
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Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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How to lower Storage TCO through Object Storage

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Networked Attached Storage is broken. Business data is increasing at an alarming pace but traditional “scale-up” NAS architectures can’t scale to meet this demand. As a result, organizations are often forced into time consuming and expensive fork-lift upgrades. To learn…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…

Eagle Eye Networks brings the Cloud to Video Surveillance

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Eric Slack

Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…

Tagged with: Analytics, as-a-Service, Capacity, Cloud, Data Growth, Eagle Eye, Expandable, Infrastructure, Video
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Webinar – The 7 key reasons why Object Storage lowers Storage TCO

Posted on September 12, 2014 by George Crump

Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Join Cloudian and Storage Switzerland for a panel-style discussion about the seven key reasons…