Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
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The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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The New Storage Center for SMBs – Podcast
Small to medium-sized businesses have special needs for their data centers. I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and WD Senior Product Line Manager Paul Chen to talk about how SMBs can use the cloud. Click…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, SMB, Western Digital
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The New SMB Data Center – Podcast
Paul Chen from WD, Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland and I sat down recently to talk about the changing face of IT in small and medium sized businesses. There are a lot of changes taking place as you’ll hear in…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, Hybrid Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Storage, SMB
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The Right Way for SMBs to Get into the Cloud
Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The cloud is an attractive option for small to medium-sized businesses because it allows a company…
Securing Hybrid Cloud Storage From Big Brother
During a recent webinar that Storage Switzerland held with Avere Systems, the audience was asked what their top concerns were when using cloud storage. Not surprisingly, the majority of the respondents stated “performance” and “security”. In fact, anecdotally we have…
File Storage vs Object Storage?
The fact that data is growing exponentially comes as no surprise to today’s IT professional. The question is, what is the best way to support that growth while enabling the business to leverage these data assets as an information advantage?…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Replication, File Storage, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Object, Object Storage
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EMC World 2014 – “Redefine”
During his keynote presentation at EMC World, Joe Tucci discussed how Google disrupted the main revenue source of the newspaper industry through its “AdWords” service. Similar to this example, Amazon has leveraged the ubiquity of the online e-commerce market space…
The Next Generation Data Center is a Model all Enterprises can use
It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Next Generation, NGDC, performance, Scalability, SolidFire, Thin provisioning
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Hybrid Cloud Storage vs. The Enterprise
Watch our On Demand webinar “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper One of the key data points coming out of EMC World 2014 last week was that the adoption of the “cloud”,…
The Easy Button for Hybrid Cloud Storage
Watch the On Demand Webinr “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy” to get an exclusive white paper Various industry sources estimate that upwards of 70% of business computing and storage will remain in private data centers for the…
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